Governor alone
entitled to submit questions.
Governor
may act in opposition to Executive Council.
Reporting
grounds for so doing.
Members may require their adverse opinions to be recorded on Minutes.
Constitution
Council.
(Amended on 30.4.38.
1.7.64.
6.1.66.
28.2.69.
5.2.71.
14.7.72.
24.9.76.
26.8.77.)
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too unimportant to require their advice, or too urgent to admit of their advice being given by the time within which it may be necessary for him to act in respect of any such matters. In all such urgent cases he shall, at the earliest practicable period, communicate to the Executive Council the measures which he may so have adopted, with the reasons therefor.
XI. The Governor shall alone be entitled to submit questions to the Executive Council for their advice or decision; but if the Governor decline to submit any question to the Council when requested in writing by any Member so to do, it shall be competent to such Member to require that there be recorded upon the Minutes his written application, together with the answer returned by the Governor to the same.
XII. The Governor may, in the exercise of the powers and authorities granted to him by Our said recited Letters Patent, act in opposition to the advice given to him by the Members of the Executive Council, if he shall in any case deem it right to do so; but in any such case he shall fully report the matter to Us by the first convenient opportunity, with the grounds and reasons of his action. In every such case it shall be competent to any Member of the said Council to require that there be recorded at length on the Minutes the grounds of any advice or opinion he may give upon the question.
XIII. The Legislative Council of the Colony shall consist of the of Legislative Governor, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Chief Secretary, Attorney-General, Secretary for Home Affairs, and Financial Secretary of the Colony, who are hereinafter referred to as ex officio Members, and such other persons holding. office under the Crown in the Colony, and not exceeding twenty in number at any one time, as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Official Members of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, not exceeding twenty-five in number at any one time, as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.
Official Members.
Unofficial Members.
Provisional appointment of Members.
(Amended on 30.4.38.)
If any Official Member of the Legislative Council cease to hold office under the Crown in the Colony, his seat in the Council shall thereupon become vacant.
XIV. Whenever any Member of the Legislative Council, other than an ex officio Member, shall, in the manner hereinafter provided, have resigned his seat in the Council or shall die, or whenever the seat of any such Member shall otherwise become vacant, or whenever
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