VIRGIN
IsLANDs,

Power to
make laws,

Standing
Orders.

Penalty for
unqualified

person sitting

or voting.

18 Virgin [slands Constitution No. 7 of 1954.+
and Llections.

28. Subject to the provisions of this Ordi-
nance, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with
the advice of of the Council, to make laws for
the peace, order and good government of the
Presidency.

29. (1) Subject to the provisions of this
Ordinance and of any Instructions under her
Majesty’s Sign Manual and Signet, the Council
may from time to time make, amend and revoke
Standing Orders for the regulation and. orderly
conduct of its own proceedings and the despatch
of business, and for the passing and intituling
of Bills and for the presentation thereof to the
Governor for assent; but no such Standing
Orders or amendment or revocation thereof
shall have effect unless and until they shall have
beeu approved by the Governor.

(2) Until other provision is made the
Standing Rules and Orders of the Legislative
Council in force immediately before the coming
into operation of this Ordinance shall, with
necessary adaptations and modifications, be the
Standing Orders of the Council; and the said
Standing Rules and Orders may be amended or
revoked by Standing Orders made under sub-
section (1) of this section.

30. (1) Any person who—

(a) having been elected or appointed
a member of the Council, but not having
been at the time of such election or appoint-
ment qualified to be so elected or appointed,
shall sit or vote in the Council; or

(6) shall sit or vote in the Council
after his seat therein has become vacant or
he has become disqualified from sitting or
voting therein,

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knowing or having reasonable grounds for know-
ing, that he was not so qualified, or that his seat
has become vacant or that he has become
disqualified, as the case may he, shall be liable
toa penalty of ninety-six dollars for every day
upon which he so sits or votes,