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“ Presidential Executive Council’? means the Executive
Council of a Presidency ;

“* Presidential Legislative Council”. means the Legislative
Council of a Presidency ;

“ public office” means any office of emolument in the
public service;

“‘ public officer’? means the holder of any public office and

includes any person appointed to act in such office;.

“session”? means the sittings of the General Legislative
Council, or of a Presidential Legislative Council,
commencing after a-prorogation or dissolution of that
Council, and terminating when that Council is
prorogued, or is dissolved without having been
prorogued ;

“sitting” means a period when the General Legislative
Council, or a Presidential Legislative Council, is
sitting continuously without adjournment, - and
includes a period during which any such. Council is in
committee; .

“the Colony” means the Colony of the Leeward Islands
consisting of the four. Presidencies;

“the Executive Council’? means the Executive Council of
the Colony;

“the Gazette” means the official publication printed and —
published in the Colony under the title of ‘the Lee-.
_ ward Islands Gazette’;

Provided that in the Presidency of Saint
Christopher Nevis and Anguilla, ‘the Gazette’ shall
also include the Official Gazette published in that
Presidency ;

“the Governor” means the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Colony, and includes the officer for the
‘time being administering the Government and, to the
extent. to which a Deputy for the Governor is
authorised to act, that Deputy;

“the public service’ means the service of the Crown in
respect of the Government of the Colony or of any of
the Presidencies, .