This empowers the governor-general to appoint Ministers of the Crown and requires such ministers to be members of the House of Representatives or the Senate, or become members within three months of the appointment.

Parliament placed the Crown in " commission ", entrusting its authority to responsible Ministers ( the Prime Minister and Cabinet ), accountable for their policies and actions to Parliament and the people.

Vying for control to avoid chaos the Crown's Ministers gained an advantage in 1706 when the Commons informally declared, " That this House will receive no petition for any sum of money relating to public Service, but what is recommended from the Crown.

Apart from achieving its intended purpose – to stabilise the budgetary process – it gave the Crown a leadership role in the Commons ; and, the Lord Treasurer assumed a leading position among Ministers.

This law conferred the Chequers Estate owned by Sir Arthur and Lady Lee, as a gift to the Crown for use as a country home for future Prime Ministers.

Unequivocal legal recognition was given in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937, which made provision for paying a salary to the person who is both " the First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister ".

Informally recognised for over a century as a convention of the constitution, the position of Leader of the Opposition was given statutory recognition in 1937 by the Ministers of the Crown Act.

The Prime Minister makes all the most senior Crown appointments, and most others are made by Ministers over whom he has the power of appointment and dismissal.

* Principal Ministers of the Crown: 1730 – 2006

Ministers of the Crown.

The Civil Service Commissioners are not civil servants and are independent of Ministers, they are appointed directly by the Crown under Royal Prerogative and they report annually to The Queen.

** In office only — Speaker of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Commons, Ministers of the Crown ( however Canadian ministers invariably enter the Privy Council upon their initial appointment, thus assuming the honorific for life ), judges of provincial courts, premiers of provinces and territories, territorial commissioners, and provincial and territorial cabinet ministers

* The Honourable — Ministers of the Crown

Minister of the Crown includes the Welsh Ministers and various Acts provide that delegated legislation, although made by another person ( for example, the General Dental Council ), is also to be made by Statutory Instrument.

The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs ( in Māori Te Tari Taiwhenua ) is a state sector organisation whose roles include the issue of passports ; administering citizenship grant applications, and lottery grant applications ; enforcement of censorship and gambling law ; registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil unions ; providing policy advice on a range of issues ; and supplying support services to Ministers of the Crown.

The office's name was changed to the Department of Internal Affairs in 1907, and it became the home for a diverse range of government functions providing services to New Zealanders and advice to Ministers of the Crown.

In Canada, " First Ministers " is a collective term that refers to all Canadian first ministers of the Crown, otherwise known as heads of government, including the Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers.

Cabinet ministers ( Ministers of the Crown ) often control the shares in such public corporations.

Ministers of the Crown often control the shares in such public corporations, while Parliament both sets out the laws that create and bind Crown corporations and sets their annual budgets.

# Other Ministers of the Crown, in chronological order of appointment to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada ( then in order of election or appointment to parliament if they joined the Privy Council on the same day ), followed by Ministers of State

Although prime ministers have answered questions in parliament for centuries, until the 1880s questions to the prime minister were treated the same as questions to other Ministers of the Crown: asked without notice, on days when ministers were available in whatever order MPs rose to ask them.

Some Culture Ministers of the states, especially in Prussia, decided, that the Sedantag would be an official festival in schools.

Nevertheless, the 1977 Constitution attempted to avoid frequent amendment by establishing regulations for government bodies ( especially the lists of ministries, state commissions, and other bodies in the 1936 constitution ) in separate, but equally authoritative, enabling legislation, such as the Law on the Council of Ministers of July 5, 1978.

Altogether 1, 800 West German persons and their past were covered: especially 15 Ministers and state secretaries, 100 admirals and generals, 828 judges or state lawyers and high law officers, 245 officials of the Foreign Office and of embassies and consulates in leading position, 297 high police officers and officers of the Verfassungsschutz.

Yet, he ardently denounced irregularities in his own government, especially when some Ministers transferred funds from the government coffers into private hands.

It has often been held by members of the Royal Family or Prime Ministers, especially those who have been influential in defending Britain at times of war.

Subsequently, she had many different jobs in the Ministry of Culture, serving several Ministers during the Democratic Centre Union governments ; especially designated by the Prime Minister himself.

From comments made at the time by PM Goh and other Cabinet Ministers, especially George Yeo, this episode gave rise to the political " out of bounds " marker that came to be known as " boh tua boh suay " ( literally, " no big, no small " in the Chinese dialect of Hokkien, to mean " no respect for rank and seniority "), that was to stifle political discussion for some years.

Other significant state owned newspapers are the daily Respublika ( The Republic ), published by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the weeklies Sem ’ Dnei ( Seven Days ) and Narodnaya Gazeta ( The People ’ s Paper ).

Cabinet Ministers visited China without the Fijian embassy being informed, he complained.

* to attest Ministers of State with the advice and approval of the Cabinet

There is no convention of Cabinet collective responsibility among members of the Council of Ministers.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

The Beretitenti appoints a Kauoman-ni-Beretitenti ( Vice-President ) and up to ten other Cabinet Ministers from among the members of the Maneaba.

Most of the work is executed by the Executive Branch which consists of the Cabinet of Ministers, Leader of the Opposition and also other members of the parliament.

The Constitution specifies that in everyday practice sovereignty is exercised by the Niue Cabinet of Ministers, comprising the premier and three other ministers.

The Premier selects three other members to form the Cabinet of Ministers, the executive arm of government.

The Cabinet of North Korea consists of the Premiers, Vice Premiers, and Ministers of the government.

The executive comprised the King and the Council of Ministers ( the Cabinet ).

All Cabinet Ministers must be Members of Parliament ( MPs ) and are collectively responsible to it.

After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.

Today the Prime Minister ( First Lord of the Treasury ), the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( responsible for The Budget ) and other senior members of the Cabinet sit on the Treasury bench and present policies in much the same way Ministers did late in the 17th century.

As the political heads of government departments Cabinet Ministers ensure that policies are carried out by permanent civil servants.

It was not until late in the 18th century that Prime Ministers gained control over Cabinet composition ( see section Emergence of Cabinet Government below ).

For two years, he and his Cabinet ( including four future Prime Ministers – Melbourne, Russell, Palmerston and Derby – and one former one, Goderich ) fought to pass what has come to be known as the Great Reform Bill of 1832.

Prime Ministers may dominate the Cabinet so much that they become " Semi-Presidents ".

They also work upon to decide a core group of Ministers ( known as the Cabinet ) as in-charge of the important functions and ministries of the Government of India.

In practice, under the conventions of the Westminster System followed in Queensland, the Premier's power is derived from two sources: command of a majority in the Legislative Assembly, and the Premier's role as chair of Cabinet, determining the appointment and roles of Ministers.

He is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State ; the literal translation of the Japanese name for the office is Minister for the Comprehensive Administration of the Cabinet or Minister that Presides over the Cabinet.