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Provided that if, for the consideration of any urgent business, the Governor shall appoint a time for sitting of the Council after the dissolution but before the day appointed for the holding of an election for the Elected Members of the Legislative Council (as required by Clause XIIA of these Instructions), the persons holding office as Elected Members of the Council immediately before such dissolution shall continue to sit as Elected Members until the commencement of the day (or, if more than one, the first day) appointed for the holding of such elections.
(Added on 4 April #HISTYR 1985)
XXIX. (Repealed 5 February #HISTYR 1971)
XXX.
(Repealed 17 November #HISTYR 1967)
XXXI. Before disposing of any vacant or waste `land to Us belonging, the Governor shall cause the same to surveyed, and such reservations to be made thereout as he may think necessary for roads or other public purposes. The Governor shall not, directly or indirectly, purchase for himself any of such lands without our special permission given through one of our Principal Secretaries of State.
Surveys and reservations to be made before waste lands are disposed
of
Governor not to purchase lands.
XXXII.
(Repealed 5 February #HISTYR 1971)
XXXIII.
(Repealed 30 April #HISTYR 1938)
XXXIV.
Whenever any offender shall have been condemned by the sentence of any Court in the Colony to suffer death, the Governor shall call upon the Judge who presided at the trial to make to him a written report of the case of such offender, and shall cause such report to be taken into consideration at a meeting of the Executive Council, and he may cause the said Judge to be specially summoned to attend at such meeting and to produce his notes thereat. The Governor shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender unless it shall appear to him expedient so to do, upon receiving the advice of the Executive Council thereon; but in all such cases he is to decide either to extend or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to his own deliberate judgment, whether the Members of the Executive Council concur therein or otherwise, entering, nevertheless, on the Minutes of the Executive Council a Minute of his reasons at length, in case he should decide any such question in opposition to the judgment of the majority of the Members thereof.
(Amended on 17 November #HISTYR 1967)
Regulation of power of pardon in capital cases
Judge's report to be laid before Executive Council
Governor to take advice of Executive Council in such
cases
May exercise his own judgment; entering his
reasons on Council Minutes, if unable to accept the advice of the majority
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