While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.

Legislative Council building in Road Town.

A new constitution was adopted in 2007 ( the Virgin Islands Constitution Order, 2007 ) and came into force when the Legislative Council was dissolved for the 2007 general election.

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

The Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose diocese lies outside of the United Kingdom, is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.

The local Country and Liberal Party members decided to form an independent " Country Liberal Party " ( CLP ) to field candidates for the Legislative Council in 1974.

1946 — Legislative Council is established.

* The Legislative Council: essentially the rubber-stamp Parliament, it was made up of People Commissioners ( known elsewhere as MPs ), who were sometimes elected, as individual members of the party, and always on the party platform.

Currently a Tri-Party Commission is serving as a Transitional Council with delegates from the Legislative, Executive and Transparency Branch, to reform the broken judicial system of the Country.

The new constitution also replaced the Legislative Council with the Legislative Assembly, and better explained the role of the Governor and the Chief Executive.

The Governor normally acts only on the advice of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands, which is composed of three Members of the Legislative Assembly elected by the Assembly to serve on the Council every year, the Chief Executive, the Director of Finance and the Governor, who acts as presiding officer.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

The Director is also an ex officio member of both the Legislative Assembly and the Executive Council.

Under the DOP, Israel agreed to recognize the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a " Single Territorial Unit " as well as to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

* 1950-Gibraltar's first Legislative Council was opened.

This modification granted Grenadians from 1925 the right to elect 5 of the 15 members of the Legislative Council, on a restricted property franchise enabling the wealthiest 4 % of Grenadian adults to vote.

In 1950 Grenada had its constitution amended to increase the number of elected seats on the Legislative Council from 5 to 8, to be elected by full adult franchise at the 1951 election.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

However the Legislative Council had few powers at this time, with government remaining fully in the hands of the colonial authorities.

A new political party, the Grenada National Party led by Herbert Blaize, contested the 1957 general election and with the cooperation of elected independent members took control of the Legislative Council from the Grenada United Labour Party.

In 1960 another constitutional evolution established the post of Chief Minister, making the leader of the majority party in the Legislative Council, which at that time was Herbert Blaize, effective head of government.

Prior to 2003, the Legislative Council comprised 44 members from 22 two-member provinces until a 2001 constitutional committee recommended the council be re-organised to the current system.

* The Federation of Malaya Legislative Council comprised the High Commissioner as the Council President, 14 official and 50 unofficial members representing the Straits Settlements, business groups and all races.

If the office of the President of the National Authority becomes vacant due to any of the above cases, the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council assumes the powers and duties of the Presidency of the National Authority, temporarily for a period not exceeding sixty days, during which free and direct elections to choose a new president are required to take place in accordance with the Palestinian election laws.

A candidate group for NSW Legislative Council elections now requires 15 candidates to be eligible for an " above the line " box.

All founders mentioned above were elected to the Legislative Council in the election except Lau Kong Wah and Wong Hong Chung, Lau then quit the party and joined the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong.

Apart from the above measures, to rebuild confidence of the people of Hong Kong towards their future, Governor Sir David Wilson introduced the Airport Core Programme, which was also known as the " Rose Garden Project ", in his annual Policy Address to the Legislative Council in October 1989.

* Electoral district of The Entrance, the electoral district in the Legislative Assembly which encompasses the above mentioned town

The principal officials of the Secretariat include the Under Secretary of the Navy ( the Secretary's principal civilian deputy ), the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy ( ASN ), the General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy ( JAG ), the Naval Inspector General ( NIG ), the Chief of Legislative Affairs, and the Chief of Naval Research.

The Legislative Reference Division has the important role of being the central clearing house across the federal government for proposed legislation or testimony by federal officials.

Much of the work of the Legislative Yuan is done via legislative committees, and a common sight on Taiwanese television involves officials of the executive branch answering extremely hostile questions from opposition members in committees.

All members are appointed by the Chief Executive from among the senior officials of the executive authorities, members of the Legislative Council, and other influential public personnels.

Under the Basic Law the Chief Executive is the chief representative of people of Hong Kong and is the head of the government of Hong Kong, whose powers and functions include leading the government, implementing the law, signing bills and budgets passed by the Legislative Council, deciding on government policies, advising appointment and dismissal principal officials of the Government of Hong Kong to the Central People's Government, appointing judges and holders of certain public offices and to pardon or commute sentences.

* To decide, in the light of security and vital public interests, whether government officials or other personnel in charge of government affairs should testify or give evidence before the Legislative Council or its committees ;

An Order-in-Council coming into effect on 31 December 1953 provided for a new Legislative Council to consist of a Speaker ex officio, eight nominated officials, twelve elected unofficials, four African unofficial members nominated by the Governor on the advice the African Representative Council, and two nominated unofficial members representing the interests of Africans.

In 1832 he appointed a Legislative Council of four government officials to assist him, and in 1839, four appointed colonists were added.

The members of ExCo are appointed by the Chief Executive from among principal officials ( heads of department, informally called " ministers "), members of Legislative Council, and public figures.

He was rehabilitated under Deng Xiaoping in 1982 along with other ' wrongly accused ' officials, and became the inaugural head of the CPC Central Political and Legislative Committee.

# To decide, in the light of security and vital interests, whether government officials or other personnel in charge of government affairs should testify or give evidence before the Legislative Council or its committees ;

* The Legislative Action Center allows members to identify and contact their federal, state, and local elected officials about issues important to them as engineers.

The 1917 Oregon Legislative Assembly redesigned the State Highway Commission, with citizens appointed to replace the elected officials.

Marin's efforts came to the notice of state officials and, in 1992, she was appointed the chief of Legislative Affairs for the Department of Developmental Services by Governor Pete Wilson.

Possessing a plurality within the Legislative Assembly, the PDC was estranged from its coalition partners in September 1990, when the latter joined with the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) to reject its nominees for chamber officials.

Western Australia first obtained responsible government in 1890, having previously been ruled since 1870 by a governor and a Legislative Council made up of appointed officials and elected members.

The town petitioned the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the elective officials passed an exceptional Act of Incorporation on July 24, 1858 to allow the community to be considered for the county seat.

However, officials of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and of the MAS majority in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly have suggested that it will be delayed into 2011.

In addition, the number of members of the Legislative Council was increased to 26, with equal numbers of officials and unofficials.

The Legislative Building houses the chambers of the Washington State Legislature and offices of several elected officials.

It was hoped that he would be able to announce some measure of responsible government but he had nothing to say on this subject, and it was not until February 1851 that an ordinance was passed constituting a Legislative council of 24 members, of whom eight were nominated by the crown ( four officials and four appointed by the governor ) and 16 were to be elected.

The member of the Legislative Councils, both at the Center and in the provinces, were to be of four categories i. e. ex-officio members ( Governor General and the members of their Executive Councils ), nominated official members ( those nominated by the Governor General and were government officials ), nominated non-official members ( nominated by the Governor General but were not government officials ) and elected members ( elected by different categories of Indian people ).

On his departure, in the presence of the members of the Executive and Legislative Councils and senior government officials, Norman-Walker boarded Lady Maurine from HMS Tamar and travelled across the Victoria Harbour to the Kowloon side.