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and Lleckons,

(2) The said penalty shall be recoverable
by action in the Supreme Court at the suit of
the Attorney General,

Ol. (1) If the Governor shall consider
that it is expedient—

(a) in the interests of public order,
publis faith or of good government (which
expressions shall, without prejudice to their
generality, include the responsibility of the
Presidency as a territory within the British
Commonwealth of Nations and all matters
pertaining to the creation or abolition of
any public office or to the appointment,
salary or other conditions of service of any
public officer); or

(/) in order to secure detailed control
of the finances of the Presidency during
such time as, by virtue of the receipt of
financial assistance by the Presidency from
Her Majesty’s Exchequer for the purpose
of balancing the annual budget or otherwise,
such control rests with “Her Majesty's
Government,

that any Bill introduced, or any motion pro-
posed, iin the Council should have effect, then,
if the Council shall fail to pass such Bill or
motion within such time and in such form as
the Governor may think reasonable and expedi-
ent, the Gevernor, at any time in his discretion,
may, notwithstanding any provisions of. this
Ordinance or of any other law in force in the
Presidency or of any Standing Orders of the
Council, declare that such Bill or motion shall
_ have effect as if it had been passed by the
Council, either in the form in which it was so
introduced or proposed or with such amendments
as the Governor shall think fit which have heen

moved or proposed in the Council or any |

Committee thereof; and thereupon the said Bill
or motion shall have effect as if it had been so
passed, and in the case of any such Bill, the

VIRGIN
IsLANDS.

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Governoy,