NEW ZEALAND 
1591 
ITI. The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instrue- 
tions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from time 
fo time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to impart to them. 
IV. The Executive Council shall not proceed to the dispatch of 
business unless two members at the least (exclusive of the Governor 
or of the member presiding) be present and assisting throughout the 
whole of the meetings at which any such business shall be dispatched. 
V. In the execution of the powers and authorities vested in him, 
the Governor shall be guided by the advice of the Executive Council, 
but if in any case he shall see sufficient cause to dissent from the 
opinion of the said Council, he may act in the exercise of his said 
powers and authorities in opposition to the opinion of the Council, 
reporting the matter to Us without delay, with the reasons for his 
50 acting. 
In any such case it shall be competent to any Member of the said 
Council to require that there be recorded upon the Minutes of the 
Council the grounds of any advice or opinion that he may give upon 
the question. 
VI. The Governor is to take care that all laws assented to by him 
in Our name, or reserved for the signification of Our pleasure thereon, 
shall, when transmitted by him, be fairly abstracted in the margins, 
and be accompanied, in such cases as may seem to him necessary, 
with such explanatory observations as may be required to exhibit 
the reasons and occasions for proposing such laws ; and he shall also 
transmit fair copies of the Journals and Minutes of the proceedings 
of the Parliament of the Dominion which he is to require from the 
clerks, or other proper officers in that behalf, of the said Parliament! 
VII. The Governor shall not pardon or reprieve any offender with- 
out first receiving in capital cases the advice of the Executive Council, 
and in other cases the advice of one, at least, of his Ministers ; and in 
any case in which such pardon or reprieve might directly affect the 
interests of Our Empire, or of any country or place beyond the 
jurisdiction of the Government of the Dominion, the Governor shall, 
before deciding as to either pardon or reprieve, take those interests 
specially into his own personal consideration in conjunction with such 
advice as aforesaid. 
VIII. All Commissions granted by the Governor to any persons 
to be Judges, Justices of the Peace, or other officers, shall, unless 
otherwise provided by law, be granted during pleasure only. 
IX. The Governor shall not quit the Dominion without having first 
obtained leave from Us for so doing under Our Sign Manual and 
Signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, except 
for the purpose of visiting the Governor-General of Australia, or the 
1! This clause was restored in 1907 ; it was omitted in 1892 in deference to 
Mr, Higinbotham (Constitution and Government of New Zealand, pp. 187, 188), 
but when all mention of reservation of Bills disappeared in 1907, when New 
Zealand acquired rank as a Dominion, it was reintroduced from the Canadian 
and Commonwealth models: above, p, 1565, n. 2.