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Cabinet of Ministers.

CEYLON GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

Parliamentary Secretaries.

Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries in Senate.

Other provisions as to Ministers and

Parliamentary Secretaries.

Cap. 13.

MAY 17, 1946

56.

46. (1) There shall be a Cabinet of Ministers who shall be charged with the general direction and control of the government of the Island and who shall be collectively responsible to Parliament.

(2) Of the Ministers, one who shall be the head of the Cabinet, shall be styled the "Prime Minister "; of the other Ministers one shall be styled the "Minister of Justice" and another shall be styled the "Minister of Finance ".

(3) The Prime Minister shall be appointed by the Governor. The other Ministers shall be appointed by the Governor acting on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

(4) The Prime Minister shall be in charge of the Ministry of Defence and External Affairs and shall administer the matters relating to that Ministry in addition to such other matters as he may determine to retain in his charge. Each Minister, other than the Prime Minister, shall be charged with the administration of such subjects and functions as may be assigned to him by the Prime. Minister.

47. The Governor, acting on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, may appoint Parliamentary Secretaries to assist the Ministers in the exercise of their Parliamentary and departmental duties:

Provided that the number of Parliamentary Secretaries shall not at any time exceed the number of Ministers.

48. Not less than two Ministers, one of whom shall be the Minister of Justice, shall be Members of the Senate. If Parliamen- tary Secretaries are appointed in pursuance of the provisions of Section 47 of this Order, not more than two of them shall be Members of the Senate.

49.-(1) Every Minister and every Parliamentary Secretary shall hold office during the Governor's pleasure:

Provided that any Minister or Parliamentary Secretary may at any time resign his office by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor.

(2) A Minister or Parliamentary Secretary who for any period of four consecutive months is not a member of either Chamber shall, at the expiration of that period, cease to be a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary, as the case may be.

(3) Whenever a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary is, from any cause whatever, unable to perform any of the functions of his office, the Governor, acting on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, may appoint a person, whether or not he has already been appointed a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary, to act in the place of the said Minister or Parliamentary Secretary, as the case may be, either generally or in the performance of any particular function. For the purposes of this Order, a person so appointed shall be deemed to be a Minister or a Parliamentary Secretary, as the case may be, as long as his appointment shall subsist.

(4) A person appointed to be or to act as a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take and subscribe before the Governor the official oath in accordance with the provisions of the Promissory Oaths Ordinance or shall make the appropriate affirmation in lieu thereof as provided in the said Ordinance.