{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cayman-islands-constitution-amendment-order-1993/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cayman-islands-constitution-amendment-order-1993/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3143",
  "legislation_title": "The Cayman Islands (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cayman-islands-constitution-amendment-order-1993",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "New section 31A added to Constitution.",
  "text": "The Constitution shall be amended by the addition, immediately after section 31 of the following new section:\n“Speaker and Deputy Speaker.\n31A (1) At the first sitting of the Legislative Assembly after a general election and as soon as practical after a vacancy occurs in the relevant office otherwise than on a dissolution of the Assembly, the elected members of the Assembly shall elect—\n(a) a Speaker from among the elected members of the Assembly, or persons qualified to be elected members of the Assembly, other than Ministers;\n(b) a Deputy Speaker from among the elected members of the Assembly other than Ministers;\nand the election of the Speaker shall take precedence over any other business of the Assembly.\n(2) A person shall vacate the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker—\n(a) on dissolution of the Legislative Assembly;\n(b) if he informs the Legislative Assembly, by writing under his hand addressed to the Assembly and received by the Clerk of the Assembly, that he resigns his office;\n(c) in any circumstances which, in the case of the Speaker, would cause him to vacate his seat as, or if he were, an elected member of the Assembly, or, in the case of the Deputy Speaker, if he ceases to be an elected member of the Assembly;\n(d) if, on the date of his election as Speaker or Deputy Speaker, he is a party to, or a partner in a firm or a director or manager of a company which is a party to any contract with the Government of the Islands or if, on any date after such election, he or a firm in which he is a partner or a company of which he is a director or manager becomes a party to any such contract, or if he becomes a partner in a firm or a director or manager of a company which is a party to any such contract, and he does not, before the expiration of thirty days from the date in question, disclose to the Assembly or, if that is impractic– able, to the Clerk of the Assembly in writing the nature of such contract and his interest, or the interest of such firm or company, therein and the Assembly does not exempt him from vacating his office under this paragraph;\n(e) if he becomes a member of the Executive Council;\n(f) on the passing, by the votes of two–thirds of the elected members of the Assembly, of a motion expressing no confidence in him as Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3143/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:33.439460+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}