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PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
INSTRUCTIONS passed under the Royal Sign Manual and 
Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the 
Dominion of New Zealand. 
Dated November 18, 1907. 
EDWARD R. & IL 
[nstrUCTIONS to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over 
Our Dominion of New Zealand, or in his absence to Our Lieutenant- 
Governor or other Officer for the time being administering the 
Government of Our said Dominion. 
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent bearing even date herewith 
We have constituted, ordered, and declared that there shall be a 
Governor and Commander-in-Chief (therein and hereinafter called 
the Governor) in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand (therein 
and hereinafter called the Dominion) : 
And whereas We have thereby authorized and commanded the 
Governor to do and execute all things that belong to his said office, 
according to the tenor of Our said Letters Patent, and of such Com- 
mission as may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, 
and according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given 
to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet or by Our Order in Our 
Privy Council or by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of 
State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in 
“he Dominion : 
Now know you that We do by these Our Instructions under Our 
Sign Manual and Signet direct and enjoin and declare Our will and 
pleasure as follows :— 
I. In these Our Instructions, unless inconsistent with the context, 
the term © the Governor’ shall include every person for the time 
being administering the Government of the Dominion, and the term 
' the Executive Council ’ shall mean the members of the Executive 
Council for the Dominion who are for the time heing the responsible 
advisers of the Governor.2 
II. The Governor may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person 
in the public service to take the Oath of Allegiance, together with 
such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by 
any Law in force in the Dominion. The Governor is to administer 
such oaths or cause them to be administered bv some Public Officer 
of the Dominion. 
' Permanent instructions were issued on February 21, 1879. They were 
revised simultaneously with the Australian instructions on March 26, 1892 (see 
Constitution and Government of New Zealand, pp. 182-6). 
2 There are no other members of an Executive Council in New Zealand, and 
the phrase seems to have been borrowed in 1892 from a Colony where the 
Executive Council, as in Victoria and Tasmania. contains past members.