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Typed by economic and Date fmonetary affairs.
progesssively
as suitable and willing candidates, as it were, emerged.
(as opposed to the civil
service)
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the civil service.
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4.
The Financial Secretary would
be the member for finance and/economics. The
Attorney General would continue with his
constitutional role and be the member for justice
The responsibilities of the Commander British
Forces would remain unchanged. The new
development would be to give unofficial members responsibility for specific policy areas.
7.
Where an unofficial member was the member
for a particular policy branch the Branch
Secretary would become the equivalent of a
Permanent Under-Secretary in the U.K. system.
He might be given the reserve power to insist,
in the last resort, that an issue arising in the
Branch was an issue of policy which should be
referred to Executive Council; and the right to
minute the Financial Secretary direct on any
issue where he believed that authority for
financial expenditure was required.
8.
To move towards the increased localisation of the government/the aim would be to have no more
than one-third of the membership of ExCo filled
by expatriates.
The Governor-in-Council
9.
Until the later stages of the scheme the
Governor would preside over the meetings of the
Executive Council in the normal way. Eventually
the Senior Unofficial could chair the Executive
Council for day-to-day business. As long as
British administration continued the Governor
would have the ultimate power to decide which issues should be classified as day-to-day
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