A

Summon-
ing of per-
sone to
Executive
Council.

Executive
Counsil
may trans-
act busi-
ness not-
withetand-
ing vacan-
cies.

_ Presiding
in Execu-
tive
Counoil.

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(2) In ascertaining, for the puryoses of paragraph (1) \

of this clause, the length of time for which any person shall
have been continuously a Member of the Executive Council—

(a) no account shall be taken of any interval be-
tween the vacation by that person of his seat in the
Executive Council in consequence of the dissolution of
the General Legislative Council and the date of his ap-
pointment or election to filla vacancy in the Executive
Council caused by that dissolution; and _

(5) if any person, having been, for any period im-
mediately before the date upon which the Executive
Council constituted for the Colony in pursuance of clause
8 of the existing Instructions ceases to exist, a Member
of that Council, becomes a Member of the Executive
Council as first constituted under these Instructions, ‘he
shall be deemed to have been a Member of the Executive
Council during. that period; and no account shall be taken
of any interval between the end of that period and the
date upon which such person is first appointed or ‘elected
as a Member of the Executive Council under these In-
structions. -

21. Whenever upon any special occasion the Governor
desires to obtain the advice of any person in the Colony re-
lating to affairs therein, he may, in writing, summon such
person to the Executive Council for such special occasion.

22. The Executive Couneil shall not be disqualified for
the transaction of business by reason of any vacancies in the
membership of the said Council, including any vacancies not
filled when the said Council is first constituted or is reconsti-
tuted at any time; and any proceedings.therein shall be. valid
notwithstanding that some person, who was not entitled so to

do, sat or voted in the Council or otherwise took part in the ©
‘ proceedings. .

28. The Governor shall, so far as practicable, attend
and preside at all meetings of the Executive Council, and in
his absence such Member as the Governor may appoint or, in
the absence of such Member-or if no Member be so appointed,
the Member present who stands first in order of precedence,

' shall preside.

Meetings of
the Execu-
tive Coun-

oil,

24.—(1) There shall be two kinds of meetings of the

Executive Council, ordinary. meetings and extraordinary.

meetings.

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