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Any act then or thereafter passed by Parliament
 affecting British India and its inha.
bitants ; or affecting the authority of
Parliament, the constitution and rights of
the East India Company ; the common
law of England so far as it may affect
the allegiance of any person to the Crown;
or the sovereignty and dominion of the
Crown over any part of the territories of
British India.

Subject to the power of disallowance by the
Crown, no law affecting the prerogative of the Crown
is, on that account, invalid.
Local Legislatures.

The Governors of the Presidencies of Madras
and Bombay are, as has been stated, provided with
a council consisting of three ordinary members; but,
for the purpose of making laws and regulations, they
are empowered to nominate the Advocate-General of
the Presidency, and not less than four (eight under the
Act of 1892) or more than eight (twenty under the
Act of 1892), other persons to be Addztional Members
of Council. Half of the number must be non-official
(“any person residing in India” under the Act of
1692). The constitution of the council is, mutatis
mutandss, subject to similar regulations to those
applying to the supreme legislature.
First meetings of such councils were appointed
by the Governor-General, but all subsequent meetings