Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument under the Public Seal revoke any such appointment.
XV. If any Unofficial Member of the Legis lative Council shall die, or become incapable of discharging his functions as a Member of the Council, or be suspended or removed from his seat in the 'Council, or be absent from the Colony, or if he resign by writing under his hand, or if his seat become vacant, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appoint in his place a fit person to be temporarily an Unofficial Member of the said Council.
Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall return to the Colony, or, as the case may be. shall be released from suspension, or shall be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal capable of again discharging his functions in the said Council.
The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, for Our confirmation or disallowance, to be signified through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, every provisional appointment of any person as an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council. Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument under the Public Seal revoke such appointment.
any
XVI. Every person who at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent is an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council may retain his scat until the end of six years from the date of his appointment, and every Unofficial Member appointed after the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters
Revocation of such appointments.
Provisional appointments in place
of Unofficial Members absent, &c.
Provisional appointments to be
immediately reported.
Seats declared void in certain
CASOS,
Rasigantion of Membere.
Revocation of such appointments.
Vacation of scals by Unofficial
Member.
Council may transset business not.
withstanding vacancies.
Patent shall vacate his seat at the end of six years from the date of the Instrument by which or in pursuance of which he is appointed, unless it is otherwise provided by that Instrument.
Provided that if any such Member is provision.
ally appointed to fill a vacant seat in the Council and his provisional appointment is immediately followed by his definitive appointment, the afore- said period of six years shall be reckoned from the date of the Instrument provisionally appoint- ing him.
Every such Unofficial Member shall be eligible to be re-appointed by the Governor by an Instru- ment under the Public Seal of the Colony for a further period not exceeding six years, subject to Our approval conveyed through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.
XVII. If any Unofficial Member of the Legis lative Council shall become bankrupt or insolvent, or shall be convicted of any criminal offence, or shall absent himself from the Colony for more than three months without leave from the Gover- nor, the Governor may declare in writing that the seat of such Member at the Council is vacant, and immediately on the publication of such declaration he shall cease to be a Member
of the Council.
XVIII. Any Unofficial Member may resign his seat at the Council by writing under his hand, but no such resignation shall take effect until it be accepted in writing by the Governor, or by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.
XIX. The Legislative Council shall not be disqualified from the transaction of business on
account of
the Members any vacancies among thereof; but the said Council shall not be com- petent to act in any case unless (including the
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