VIRGIN
IsLANDS.

Power to
summon
public officer
to attend
meetings of
Council.

Qualifications
for elected
membership.

Disqualifioa-
tions for
nominated
or elected
membership.

8 Virgin Isla ids Constitution No.7 of 1954.

and Elections.

(d) in the case of two elected mem-
bers, in a two-member constituency not
~ having obtained the same number of
votes, according to the number of votes

obtained by each;

(c) in any other case according to
the alphabetical order of their names.

9. (1) The Commissioner may summon to
the Council any public officer, notwithstanding
that such officer may not: be a member of the
Council, when in the opinion of the Commissioner
the business before the Council renders the presence
of such officer desirable.

(2) Any public officer so summoned shall be
entitled to take part in the proceedings of the
Council relating to the matter in respect of which
he was summoned but shall not thereby become a
member of the Council and shall not have the
right to vote in the Council.

10. Subject to the provisions of section 11,
any person who—

(a) is a British subject of the age of
twenty-one years or upy rards ; und

(6) has resided in the Presidency for a
period of twelve months immediately pre-
ceding the date of his nomination for election,
or is domiciled in the Presidency and is resi-
dent therein at the date aforesaid,

shall be qualified to be elected as an elected member
of the Council, and no other person shall be
qualified to he so elected, or, having been so
elected, shall sit or vote in the Council.

11. No person shall be qualified to be
appointed as a nominated member or elected as an
elected member of the Council who—

(a) is, by virtue of his own act, under
any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedi-
ence or adherence to a foreign Power or
State;