968 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART rv 
after the next general election. They need not be chosen 
from among the members of the Council, and if not so chosen 
they will, like the Administrator, be entitled to sit and speak 
but not to vote in the Council. Any casual vacancy will 
be filled by the Council if in session, or temporarily until the 
next meeting of the Council by the Committee itself, while 
if the number available at any time falls beneath the quorum 
required by the Committee’s regulations, the Administrator 
is to summon a meeting of the Council for the purpose of 
electing members to fill the vacancies. Pending their 
election the Administrator shall govern alone. 
Subject to the provisions of the Act all the powers, 
authorities, and functions vested in the Governor or Governor 
in Council of the Colonies or any minister by the existing law 
shall after the Union be administered by the Administrator, 
as far as such powers refer to such matters as to which the 
Councils are empowered to make Ordinances. In the adminis- 
tration of these questions the Administrator must act on 
the advice of the Committee, and in case of the equality 
of votes in the Committee the Administrator will have also 
a casting vote, but will not otherwise be able to override the 
members of the Committee. In all matters in respect of 
which no powers are reserved to or delegated to the Councils 
by the Act, the Administrator shall act on behalf of the 
Governor-General in Council if required to do so, but in that 
case he need not refer to anv other member of the Executive 
Committee. 
The Executive Committee has power with the consent of 
the Governor-General in Council to make rules for its pro- 
cedure, and subject to the laws passed by the Parliament 
the Committee may appoint additional officers for Pro- 
vincial affairs and lav down rules for their management and 
discipline. 
It will be seen at once that this body is quite anomalous. 
In the first place, the Administrator forms an integral part of 
it, and though this position may be said to be comparable 
with that of the Lieutenant-Governors of Canada, who are 
also in a sense members of the Executive Councils. the