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Provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in
these Instructions, until such day as the Governor shall by
Order under his hand appoint, the Kxecutive Council of the
Colony constituted in pursuance of clause 8 of the existing
Instructions, shall continue to be the Executive Council of the
Colony and shall be constituted and shall perform its functions
as if the existing Instructions had not been revoked, and as if
no other Instructione under Our Sign Manual and Signet had

been issued to the Governor.

10. The ex-officio ‘Members of the Executive Council
shall be the Colonial Secretary, the Administrator of ‘Antigua,
the Administrator of Saint Christopher Nevis and Anguilla, the.
Attorney-General, the Commissioner of Montserrat and the
Commissioner of the Virgin Islands.

11.—(1) The Official Member of the Executive Council
shall be a public officer and shall be appointed either by name
or by reference to his office by the Governor by Instrument

under the Public Seal of the Colony.

(2) The Governor shall forthwith report to Us through a
Secretary of State the appointment of any person to be the
Official Member of the Executive Council.

12.—(1) The Nominated Member of the Executive
Council shall be a person who is a nominated member of the
General Legislative Council and shall be appointed by the
Governor, by Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony.

(2) The Governor shall forthwith report to Us through
a Secretary of State the appointment of any person to be the

- Nominated Member of the Executive Council.

13.—(1) The Elected Members of the Executive Council
shall be persons who are representative members of the General
Legislative Council and shall be elected to the Executive
Council in‘accordance with the provisions of this clause.

(2) The nominated and representative members of ‘the
General Legislative Council shall, not later than its third sitting
after the coming into force of any Order made by the Governor
under clause 9 of these Instructions and after every dissolution
of the Council, elect from among its representative members six
persons to be Elected Members of the Executive Council.

14.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Instructions
the Official Member and the Nominated Member shall hold their
seats in the Executive Council during Our pleasure,

 

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