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(5) Any person vacating a seat as an Official, Nominated

or’ Elected Member of the Executive Council may, if qualified,
again be appointed or elected from time to time.

15.—(1) (a) The Governor may, by Instrument under
the Public Seal of the Colony, suspend the Official Member or
the Nominated Member from the exercise ‘of his functions as a
Member of the Executive Council; and while such suspension
is in force the person suspended shall not sit in, or take part in
the proceedings of, the Executive Council.

(b) Every such suspension shall forthwith be reported by
the Governor to Us through a Secretary of State, and shall
remain in force unless and until it shall be removed by the
Governor by an Instrument under the said Seal, or by Us,
through a Secretary of State, or the person suspended ceases to

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be a Member of the Executive Council. ;

(2) The Governor may, by Instrument under the Public -
Seal of the Colony, declare the Official Member, the Nominated
Member or an Elected Member to be, by reason of illness,
temporarily incapable of discharging his functions-as a Member
of the Executive Council; and thereupon such Member shall
not sit in, or take part in the proceedings of, the Executive
Council until he is declared in manner aforesaid again to be
capable of discharging his said functions.

16. All questions which may arise as to the right of any
erson to be or remain a Member of the Executive Council

ship of the shall be referred to and determined by the Governor.
Executive
Council. .
Filling of 17.—(1) Whenever the seat of the Official Member or
Facancies the Nominated Member -of the Executive Council becomes
, Executive vacant the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the
Council. Governor in accordance with the provisions of these Instruc-
. tions.
(2) Whenever the seat of an Elected Member of the
Executive Council becomes vacant from any cause other than
the dissolution of the General Legislative Council, the nomi-
nated and representative members of the General Legislative
Couneil shall, as soon as convenient, elect a person from among
its representative members to fill the vacancy in the manner
provided in clause 19 of these Instructions.
Temporary 18.—(1) Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the num-
Members. ber of persons sitting in the Executive Council by reason of the
fact that— .
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