cuar. 111] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 1565 
of New South Wales, dated October 29, 1900, illustrates the 
form normal in such case :— 
III. The Governor shall forthwith communicate these 
Our instructions to the Executive Council, and likewise all 
such others from time to time as he shall find convenient 
for Our service to impart to them. 
IV. The Governor shall attend and preside at the meetings 
of the Executive Council, unless prevented by some necessary 
or reasonable cause, and in his absence such member as may 
be appointed by him in that behalf, or in the absence of 
such member the senior member of the Executive Council 
actually present shall preside ; the seniority of the members 
of the said Council being regulated according to the order of 
their respective appointments as members thereof. 
V. The Executive Council shall not proceed to the despatch 
of business unless duly summoned by authority of the 
Governor nor unless two members at the least (exclusive of 
the Governor or of the member presiding) be present and 
assisting throughout the whole of the meetings at which any 
such business shall be despatched. 
VI. In the execution of the powers and authorities vested 
in him, the Governor shall be guided by the advice of the 
Executive Council, but if in any case he shall see sufficient 
cause to dissent from the opinion of the said Council, he may 
act in the exercise of his said powers and authorities in 
opposition to the opinion of the Council, reporting the matter 
to Us without delay, with the reasons for his so acting. 
In any such case it shall be competent to any Member 
of the said Council to require that there be recorded upon the 
Minutes of the Council the grounds of any advice or opinion 
that he may give upon the question. 
In the case of Canada there is no provision for any 
Executive Council in the letters patent, and the instructions 
are all but silent on the topic: they contain indeed since 
1878 only the sapient clause :—- 
And we do require Qur said Governor-Géneral to com- 
municate forthwith to the Privy Council for Our said 
Dominion these Our instructions, and likewise all such 
others from time to time as he shall find convenient for Our 
service to be imparted to them. 
The same mode has been followed in the case of the 
Commonwealth in 1900, and the Union of South Africa in 1910. 
One of the powers which are conferred upon the Governor