CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12] — Page 650

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And whereas Her Majesty Queen Victoria did issue certain Instructions to the Governor under

Her Sign Manual and Signet bearing. date the Nineteenth day of January 1888, and certain Additional Instructions bearing date the Seventh day of July 1896 :)

And whereas We are ninded to substitute

fresh Instructions for the aforesaid Instructions

and Additional Instructions:

Now therefore We do, by these Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, revoke as from the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent, the aforesaid Instruc- tions of the Nineteenth day of January 1888 and the aforesaid Additional Instructions of the Seventh day of July 1896, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure as follows:-

I. The Governor may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person in the public service of the Colony to take the Oath of Allegiance, in the form prescribed by the Act mentioned in Our said recited Letters Patent, together with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any laws in force in the Colony. The Governor is to administer such Oaths, or to cause them to be administered by some public officer of the Colony.

II. The Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony (if any), the Senior Military officer for the time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, of Attorney-General, and of Treasurer of the Colony, who are hereinafter referred to as extoficio Members, and of such other persons as at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Members of the said

Recite Instructions of 19th January 1888 and Additional Instructions of 7th July 1896.

Revokos Instructions of

January 1888 and Additional Instructions of 7th July 1896.

19th

Administration of Oaths.

Constitution of Executive Council.

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Provisional appointment of Mem- bers of the Executive Council.

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Council, or as We may from time to time appoint

by any Instructions or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor in pur- suance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time appoint under the Public Seal of the Colony.

III. Whenever any Member, other than an exofficio Member, of the Executive Council of the Colony shall, by writing under his hand, resign his seat in the Council, or shall die, or be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony to be incapable of exercising his functions as A Member of the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or shall be acting in an office the holder of which is an exofficio Member of the Council, or shall be suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionall appoint any public officer to be temporarily an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, and any person not a public officer to be temporarily an Unofficial Member of the Council in the place of the Member so resigning, or dying, or being suspended, or declared incapable, or being absent, or sitting as 21 exofficio Member.

Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is dis- allowed by Us, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall be released from suspen- sion, or, as the case may be, shall be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal capable of again discharging his functions in the Council, or shall return to the Colony, or shall cease to sit in the Council as

an

exfoficio Member.

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