{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-helena-constitution-order-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-helena-constitution-order-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1842",
  "legislation_title": "The St. Helena Constitution Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/st-helena-constitution-order-1988",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Temporary Members of Legislative Council.",
  "text": "(1) The Governor may, by writing under his hand, declare that an Ex-officio Member of the Legislative Council is, by reason of absence or illness, temporarily unable to discharge his functions as a member of the Council, and thereupon that member shall not take part in the proceedings of the Council until he is declared in manner aforesaid to be again able to discharge those functions.\n(2) If anEx-officio Member of the Legislative Council is incapable of taking part in the proceedings of the Council by reason of a declaration made under subsection (1) of this section, the Governor may appoint to be a Temporary Member of the Council a person who holds a public office.\n(3) The Governor shall forthwith report to Her Majesty through a Secretary of State any appointment made under this section.\n(4) A person appointed under this section to be a Temporary Member of the Legislative Council–\n(a) shall hold his seat in the Council during Her Majesty’s pleasure;\n(b) shall vacate his seat in the Council when he is informed by the Governor that the member on account of whose incapacity he was appointed is again able to discharge his functions as a member of the Council, or when the vacancy has otherwise ceased to exist.\n(5) The powers conferred upon the Governor by this section shall be exercised by him in his discretion.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1842/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:56:04.662396+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."
}