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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-helena-ascension-and-tristan-da-cunha-constitution-order-2009/schedule/paragraph-143",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1751",
  "legislation_title": "The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-helena-ascension-and-tristan-da-cunha-constitution-order-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/143",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "143",
  "heading": "The Governor",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a Governor of Ascension, who, subject to subsections (3) and (4), shall be the person for the time being holding or lawfully performing the functions of the office of Governor of St Helena.\n(2) The Governor shall have such functions as are conferred or imposed on him or her by this Constitution or any other law and such other functions as Her Majesty may from time to time be pleased to assign to him or her through a Secretary of State, and, subject to the provisions of this Constitution and of any other law by which any such functions are conferred or imposed, shall do and execute all things that belong to his or her office according to such instructions, if any, as Her Majesty may from time to time see fit to give him or her through a Secretary of State; but no court shall enquire whether to not he or she has complied with any such instructions.\n(3) No person who is acting as Governor of St Helena shall do so in relation to Ascension while the Governor is in Ascension or travelling between St Helena and Ascension.\n(4) No person who is appointed as a Governor’s Deputy under section 28 shall discharge any function of the office of Governor in relation to Ascension while the Governor is in Ascension unless the Governor expressly authorises him or her to do so.\n(5) In subsections (3) and (4), “the Governor” means the person holding the office of Governor.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1751/schedule/paragraph/143",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:09:37.810912+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."
}