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 Legislarequire
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.
