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Assembly. By s. 49 it was provided that ‘ The Legislative
Council may either accept or reject any Money Bill passed
by the Legislative Assembly, but may not alter it’.
3. There was no express provision for the settlement of
differences between the two Houses of Parliament, whether
with regard to finance or to general legislation.
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By clauses ii—vii of the letters patent of the 6th of December,
1906, it was provided that the Legislative Council should
consist of 15 members, to be summoned in the case of the
first Council by the Governor, and if any vacancy occurred in
the first or in any subsequent Council a member should be
appointed to fill the said vacancy by the Governor in Council
until the completion of the period for which the person in
whose place he was appointed would have held office.
Members of the Council were appointed in the name of His
Majesty by instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony.
A member of the Council had to be of the age of 30 years
or upwards, have resided in the Colony for three years, and
be qualified to be registered as a voter for some electoral
division of the Colony. Members of the first Council held
office for five years, but at any time after four years of the
date of the first meeting of the Council the Legislature
might have passed a law providing for the election of
members of the Legislative Council, whereupon, subject to
the provisions of any such law, the then existing Legislative
Council would have been dissolved and all members of the
Legislative Council thereafter have been elected as prescribed
in the law. The quorum was six.
Any member of the Legislative Council might resign his
seat by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor,
and under clause xxx a seat was vacated if anv member of
the Legislative Council should—
(1) Fail for a whole ordinary annual session to give his
attendance in the Legislative Council ; or
(2) Take any oath, or make any declaration or acknowledgement
of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to any
foreign state or power; or
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