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dissolve State Council.
First general election of Members of Parliament.
First Standing Orders of the Senate and House of Representatives.
First Clerks of Senate and House of
Representatives
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Parliamentary
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First Permanent Secretaries.
Retirement of Officers of State.
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Governor shall not affect the continuance in operation of the provisions of the existing Orders in Council which would have applied between the dissolution of the State Council and the next succeeding election of Executive Committees if a general election had been ordered.
79. If the State Council is not dissolved under the provisions of the Ceylon (State Council) Order in Council, 1931, before the expiration of a period of nine months from the date on which this Order is published in the Government Gazette, the Governor shall, as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, dissolve the State Council.
80. As soon as conveniently may be after the date on which Part III. of this Order comes into operation and after the completion of the registers of electors referred to in Section 77 of this Order, the Governor shall by Proclamation order that a general election shall be held for the purpose of electing Members to constitute the first House of Representatives under this Order.
81. The first Standing Orders of the Senate and of the House of Representatives shall be made by the Governor. Any Standing Order made by the Governor may be amended or revoked by the Chamber for which that Order is made.
82. (1) The first Clerk to the Senate shall be appointed provisionally by the Governor and shall hold office until an appointment is made under Section 28 of this Order.
(2) The person holding the office of Clerk of the State Council and the persons on the staff of the State Council on the date immediately preceding the date on which Part III. of this Order comes into operation shall, on that date, be transferred to the service of the House of Representatives and shall be deemed to have been appointed respectively as Clerk to the House of Representatives and as members of his staff under Section 28 of this Order. The persons referred to in this subsection shall, until Parliament otherwise provides, hold their appointments on as nearly as may be the same terms and conditions as those on which they were employed under the State Council.
83. The appointment of the first Permanent Secretaries shall be made by the Governor on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Every such appointment shall be provisional until an appointment is made under Section 51 of this Order.
84. (1) Each of the persons holding the respective offices of Chief Secretary, Legal Secretary and Financial Secretary shall cease to hold that office when all the subjects and functions assigned to him under the existing Orders in Council have been assumed by a Minister or other authority under this Order.
(2) Until the Chief Secretary, the Legal Secretary and the Financial Secretary cease to hold office as provided in subsection (1) of this Section, they shall be paid the salaries specified in the Ceylon (State Council) Order in Council, 1931.
(3) If any person ceasing to hold office under the provisions of this Section, having held such office on the ninth day of October, 1945, is not transferred to any public service outside the Island and is granted a pension or gratuity in respect of service under the Government of the Island, his case shall be treated in the comput- ation of such pension or gratuity as one of abolition of office.