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become vacant, or whenever any such Member shall be suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, or be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal to be incapable of exercising his functions as a Member of the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or shall be acting in an office the holder of which is an ex officio Member of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal, appoint some person to be provisionally a Member of the Council in the place of such Member.
(Amended on 12 October #HISTYR 1990)
Such person shall hold his place in the Council during our pleasure and shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or revoked by the Governor or superseded by the definitive appointment of a Member of the Council, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall be released from suspension, or, as the case may be, shall be declared by the Governor capable of again exercising his functions in the Council, or shall return to the Colony, or shall cease to sit in the Council as an ex officio Member.
When any person shall be lawfully discharging the functions of more than one of the offices the holders of which are ex officio Members of the said Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal, appoint any fit person to be provisionally a Member of the Council so long as the said offices shall continue to be so discharged by one person but any such appointment may be disallowed or revoked as aforesaid.
The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, through one of Our Principal Secretariat of State, every provisional appointment of any person as a Member of the Legislative Council.
(Amended on 30 April 1938; 4 April #HISTYR 1985)
XV.
(Repealed 15 November #HISTYR_1928)
Tenure of office of Official and Appointed Members of Legislative Council
XVI.
(1) (Repealed 12 October #HISTYR 1990)
(2) Every Appointed Member of the Legislative Council shall vacate his seat at the end of-
Where there has been a vacancy
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