230 DIVISION OF LEGISLATIVE POWER. 
ZE0 oie The Governor. The salary of the Governor-General may 
General be varied by the Dominion Parliament’, but otherwise the 
gos Ym Parliament has no legal control over his office. The salaries 
Goreme. of the Lieutenant-Governors are fixed and provided for by 
Parliament®. The provinces have no legal control over the 
office of Lieutenant-Governor?, but the Governor-General is 
by constitutional custom required to rely on the advice of 
his ministers in making or revoking an appointment, 
The Senate. The only powers conferred on the Dominion 
Parliament over the Senate are those for varying the number 
necessary to form a quorum® and of hearing and determining 
any question that arises relating to the qualification of a 
senator or to a vacancy in the Senate®. The Parliament cannot 
abolish the Senate, nor alter the number of members’, except 
by providing for the representation of new provinces or of 
territories not in a province’; nor prescribe what qualifications 
a senator should possess: all these matters are settled by the 
Act of Union and subsequent Acts, and can only be altered 
by the Imperial Parliament. 
The Pro- The Legislative Council. The provinces, on the other 
ri hand, have power not only to alter the constitution of the 
ive il. Legislative Council but even to abolish it’. By section 92 
a provincial Legislature may amend from time to time the 
constitution of the province notwithstanding anything in the 
Act. The only legislative Council constituted in detail in 
the Union Act is that of Quebec, as the constitutions of the 
Legislative Councils in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 
were continued as they existed at the time the Act passed. 
Manitoba has taken advantage of the above power and 
abolished its upper House™. 
The House of Commons. As regards the House of Com- 
The 
Lower 
Honsge. 
| B. N. A. Act, 8. 105. 2 Tb. 8. 60. 3 Ib. 8. 92 1). 
! See ante, p. 187. 5 B.N. A. Act. 5. 35. 6 Ib. s. 33. 
/ 34 & 35 Vie. (i) c. 28. 8 49 & 50 Vie, ec. 35. 
' B. N. A. Act. ss. 72. 88. 92 (1). 10 Man. 39 Vie. c. 28.