ITS FUNCTIONS. 
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within one month after his resignation does not vacate his 
seat, unless the ministry to which he belonged has resigned 
and a new administration has been formed. 
It is now the rule that, on a change of ministry, all Resign. 
outgoing ministers should resign their seats or be removed, as ation. 
it is not deemed expedient that retiring ministers should 
retain a seat in the Council as in England, but ex-ministers 
have a special precedence within the Dominion and are 
styled “ Honourable” for life’, 
FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL. 
The functions of the Privy Council as regards the Governor- 
General are governed by two leading ideas. 
First: In all prerogative matters and matters in which 
Imperial interests are concerned, the Governor-General, 
though bound to pay every consideration to the advice of his 
Ministers, is not bound to follow it. 
Secondly: In all other matters the Governor-General is 
expected to follow and adopt their advice. 
1. As regards Legislation. 
(1) Initiation of Legislation. Two classes of legislation Legisla- 
require to be distinguished, (a) Money bills, (b) Ordinary ve re. 
legislation. 
(a) Bills, involving the imposition of a tax or the Money 
appropriation of the revenues, require to be recommended to Ts 
the House of Commons by the Governor-General’, and in 
exercising that statutory power the Governor-General adopts 
the constitutional practice of consulting his ministry. 
(0) Though any bill, except a money bill, may bé intro- Other 
duced into either House by any member, in Canada, as in Bills. 
England, the Executive controls legislation. By the standing 
{ Todd, pp. 42, 231. 2 B. N. A, Act 1867, s. 54.