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TIVE COUNCIL ): AND

(C) SUCH OTHER PERSONS (INCLUDING APPOINTED AND ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) NOT HOLDING OFFICE UNDER THE CROWN IN THE COLONY AS THE GOVERNOR MAY, FROM TIME TO TIME, APPOINT (WHO SHALL BE STYLED ''APPOINTED MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL'').

(2) APPOINTMENTS TO THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SHALL BE MADE BY THE GOVERNOR, IN PURSUANCE OF ANY INSTRUCTIONS UNDER OUR SIGN MANUAL AND SIGNET OR THROUGH ONE OF OUR PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE, BY AN INSTRUMENT UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE COLONY.

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(3) SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPH (4) EVERY APPOINTED MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SHALL VACATE HIS SEAT AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE INSTRUMENT BY WHICH HE IS APPOINTED OR OF SUCH OTHER PERIOD AS MAY BE SPECIFIED IN THAT INSTRUMENT, BUT SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO BE RE-APPOINTED FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OR PERIODS, EACH PERIOD NOT EXCEEDING FIVE YEARS.

(4) IF ANY PERSON IS PROVISIONALLY APPOINTED TO FILL A VACANT SEAT IN THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND HIS PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT IS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY HIS DEFINITIVE APPOINTMENT, THE PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS MENTIONED IN PARAGRAPH (3) SHALL BE RECKONED FROM THE DATE OF THE INSTRUMENT PROVISIONALLY APPOINTING HIM.

(5) IF ANY OFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CEASES TO HOLD OFFICE UNDER THE CROWN IN THE COLONY HIS SEAT IN THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SHALL THEREUPON BECOME VACANT

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3. CLAUSE III OF THE PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTIONS IS AMENDED

(A) BY DELETING ''MEMBER, OTHER THAN AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER, OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE COLONY' AND SUBSTITUTING THE FOLLOWING

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'MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, OTHER THAN AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER'':

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(8) BY DELETING

THE COUNCIL WHEREVER IT OCCURS AND

SUBSTITUTING THE FOLLOWING

''EXECUTIVE COUNCIL'

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(C) BY DELETING ''OR UNOFFICIAL : AND

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(D) BY DELETING ''AN UNOFFICIAL

AND SUBSTITUTING THE FOLLOWING

I 1 AN APPOINTED'',

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