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(f) a Member is declared by the Governor under
subsection (2) of clause 31 of these Instructions to be,
by reason of illness, temporarily incapable of discharging
his functions as a Member; or .

(g) the seat of a Presidential Official. Member, a

Presidential Appointed Member, or the Nominated Mem-

ber is vacant for any cause; or

(hk) a Member is absent from the Colony ;

the provisions of paragraph (2) of this clause shall have effect.

(2) (a) If the vacancy is in the number of persons sitting
in a Presidential Fixecutive Council as Presidential Official
Members, the Governor may appoint a person who is a public

officer to bea ‘Temporary Member of that Executive Council

for the period of such vacancy. Any such person may be
appointed either by name or by reference to his office.

(b) If the vacancy is in the number of persons sitting in
the Executive Council of the Virgin Islands as Presidential

Appointed Members, the Governor may appoint a person to be —

a Temporary Member of that Executive Council for the period
of such vacancy.

(c) If the vacancy is in respect of the person sitting in a
Presidential Executive Council as the Presidential Nominated
Member, the Governor. may appoint a person who is a nomi-
nated member of the Legislative Council of the Presidency

concerned to be a Temporary Member of the Executive Council

of that Presidency for the period of such vacancy.

(d) If the vacancy ina Presidential Executive Council is
in respect of the persons sitting in the said Hxecutive Council as
Presidential Elected Members, then, if the Governor shall
inform the Legislative Council of the Presidency concerned by
message that it is desirable that a person should be elected to be
a ‘Temporary Member of the Executive Council ‘of that
Presidency for the period of such vacancy, the nominated and
elected members of the Legislative Council of such Presideney

may elect a person from among the elected members thereof —

to be a Temporary Member of the Executive Council of that
Presidency for the period of such vacancy. :

(e) Every appointment made under sub-paragraph (a);

sub-paragraph (6) or sub-paragraph (c) hereof shall be made by.

the Governor by Instrument under the Public Seal of the

Colony.

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