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PART I EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION * * * * * PART V THE UNION CHAPTER I.—THE EXECUTIVE The President and Vice-President 52. The President of India.—There shall be a President of India. * * * * * 54. Election of President.—The President shall be elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of— (a) the elected members of both Houses of Parliament; and (b) the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States. 1[Explanation.—In this article and in article 55, "State" includes the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union territory of 2[Puducherry].] 55. Manner of election of President.—(1) As far as practicable, there shall be uniformity in the scale of representation of the different States at the election of the President. (2) For the purpose of securing such uniformity among the States inter se as well as parity between the States as a whole and the Union, the number of votes which each elected member of Parliament and of the Legislative Assembly of each State is entitled to cast at such election shall be determined in the following manner:— (a) every elected member of the legislative Assembly of a State shall have as many votes as there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient obtained by dividing the population of the State by the total number of the elected members of the Assembly; (b) if, after taking the said multiples of one thousand, the remainder is not less than five hundred, then the vote of each member referred to in sub-clause (a) shall be further increased by one; (c) each elected member of either House of Parliament shall have such number of votes as may be obtained by dividing the total number of votes assigned to the members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States under sub-clauses (a) and (b) by the total number of the elected members of both Houses of Parliament, fractions exceeding one-half being counted as one and other fractions being disregarded. -
Legislative Council Proceedings and Debates Held by SAMP September 2007
SAMP Holdings List – Legislative Council Debates South Asia Microform Project September 2007 Legislative Council Proceedings and Debates Held by SAMP September 2007 Contents: India. Imperial Legislative Council. .............................................................................................................................. 1 Assam (India). .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Bengal (India). ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 Bihar and Orissa (India). ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Bihar (India). ................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Bombay (India : State). .................................................................................................................................................. 7 Burma. .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Central Provinces and Berar (India). ........................................................................................................................... -
Post-Election Seminar in Montserrat
CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 2. AIM & OBJECTIVES 2 3. FACILITATORS / DELEGATION 2 4. PROGRAMME DETAILS 3 5. PROGRAMME COMMENTS 6 6. FEEDBACK 8 7. OUTCOMES & FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES 9 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 9. ABOUT CPA BIMR 9 ANNEX 1. Speaker/Facilitator Biographies 10 2. Committee Case Study 11 3. Mock Debate Format 12 1 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In its capacity as the Secretariat for the CPA British Islands and Mediterranean Region, CPA UK organised an Election Observer Mission to Montserrat for its General Election in September 2014. The election resulted in the Montserrat Legislative Assembly altering its composition to include six new MLAs out of a total of nine. CPA BIMR offered to continue its engagement with the Montserrat Legislative Assembly to strengthen the capacity of these newer parliamentarians and bring them up to speed with their more experienced and established colleagues. Between the 14 and 15 January 2015, CPA BIMR organised a Post-Election Seminar in Montserrat. The Seminar was arranged with the support of the Legislative Assembly, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Government of Montserrat and the Governor’s Office. The Seminar comprised of a number of roundtable sessions covering various topics related to the role of parliamentarians. These topics were selected to meet the specific needs of legislators in Montserrat and complement the induction work already organised. There were also a number of interactive sessions on communication skills. The format of the programme was intended to be as dynamic and flexible as possible. 2. AIM & OBJECTIVES Aim The aim of the Post-Election Seminar was to strengthen the knowledge, skills and confidence of the newly elected Members of the Montserrat Legislative Assembly through sharing best practice with experienced Commonwealth Parliamentarians. -
The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 1989 No. 2401 CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIES The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989 Made 19th December 1989 Laid before Parliament 8th January 1990 Coming into force On a day to be appointed under section 1(2) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1989 Present, The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 5 and 7 of the West Indies Act 1962[1] and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 1.Citation and commencement —(1) This Order may be cited as the Montserrat Constitution Order 1989. (2) This Order shall come into force on such day as the Governor, acting in his discretion, may appoint by proclamation published in the Gazette. Interpretation 2.—(1) In this Order— "the appointed day" means the day appointed by the Governor under section 1(2) of this Order: "the Constitution" means the Constitution set out in Schedule 2 to this Order. (2) The provisions of section 68 of the Constitution shall apply for the purposes of interpreting sections 1 to 8 of this Order and otherwise in relation thereto as they apply for the purposes of interpreting and in relation to the Constitution. Revocations 3. The instruments and enactments specified in Schedule 1 to this Order are revoked with effect from the appointed day. Establishment of Constitution 4. Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect as the Constitution of Montserrat on the appointed day Existing Laws 5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the existing laws shall have effect on the appointed day as if they had been made in pursuance of the Constitution and shall be read and construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the Constitution. -
Legislative Council
About Parliament - Sheet 06 Legislative Council History The effect of the new Constitution was to substitute the old Legislative Council for two houses of he Parliament of Western Australia has, as its T Parliament – the Legislative Council and the genesis, an Order‐in‐Council issued in England in Legislative Assembly in order to form a true November 1830, and received and published in Parliament of Western Australia. Western Australia in December 18311. The Order‐in‐Council allowed for the establishment of a Legislative Council to make all necessary laws and to constitute all necessary courts for the ‘peace, order and good government of the settlement’. Legislative Council Chamber The Legislative Council, also known as the upper house, is based on the House of Lords in Britain Membership and Term of Office where in the 13th century they formed two houses Members of the Legislative Council are elected for of Parliament. The House of Lords, having a fixed term of four years from the time they take representatives of the religious leaders their seats following their election. There is no (Lord Spiritual) and magnates (Lord Temporal) waythat the Legislative Council can be dissolved came to be known as the upper house. prior to the end of each four‐year term, even if there is an early election for the Legislative The House of Lords is superior in degree to the Assembly. House of Commons as it has both a legislative and judicial function. The House of Lords is the highest In 1987 a system of proportional representation court of appeal in both civil and criminal cases. -
A Study of Identity, Ethics and Power in the Relationship Between Britain and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories
University of Plymouth PEARL https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk 04 University of Plymouth Research Theses 01 Research Theses Main Collection 2013 Distant Relations: A Study of Identity, Ethics and Power in the Relationship Between Britain and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Harmer, Nichola http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1575 University of Plymouth All content in PEARL is protected by copyright law. Author manuscripts are made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the details provided on the item record or document. In the absence of an open licence (e.g. Creative Commons), permissions for further reuse of content should be sought from the publisher or author. DISTANT RELATIONS: A STUDY OF IDENTITY, ETHICS AND POWER IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OVERSEAS TERRITORIES By NICHOLA HARMER A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science December 2012 This copy of the thesis has been supplied on the condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the author’s prior consent. ABSTRACT Nichola Harmer DISTANT RELATIONS: A STUDY OF IDENTITY, ETHICS AND POWER IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OVERSEAS TERRITORIES This thesis contributes to new understandings of the contemporary relationship between Britain and the fourteen remaining United Kingdom Overseas Territories. By examining the discourse of social and political elites in Britain and in several Overseas Territories, it identifies the significance of the role of identity in shaping perceptions and relations between these international actors. -
An Evaluation of HMG's Responses to the Montserrat Volcanic
EVALUATION REPORT EV635 December 1999 reports An Evaluation of HMG’s Response to the Montserrat Volcanic Emergency Volume I By Edward Clay, Christine Barrow, Charlotte Benson, Jim Dempster, Peter Kokelaar, Nita Pillai, John Seaman Pakistan Health Planning SECTION The former Overseas Development Administration (ODA) became the Department for International Development (DFID) in May 1997. References in this report to the ODA apply to events and actions prior to this change. The opinions expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department for International Development. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I Prefacei Forewordiii List of Abbreviations & Acronymsv Figure 1 Montserrat at the end of 1998 and a chronology of volcanic events and evacuations ix Figure 2 Bramble Airport and the Volcano, November 1998 x SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS AND KEY LESSONS1 1.INTRODUCTION 11 2.THE SOUFRIÈRE HILLS ERUPTION SINCE 1995 AND ITS IMPACT 15 2.1 Background 15 2.2 The eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano 15 2.3 Impacts of the volcano 16 3.HMG’S RESPONSE: JULY 1995 - OCTOBER 1998 19 3.1 Introduction 19 3.2 Initial crisis: July-September 1995 20 3.3 Waiting on the volcano: September 1995-June 1997 20 3.4 Volcanic crisis: June-September 1997 21 3.5 Moving from emergency to reconstruction and sustainable development 22 3.6 Resources 23 3.7 The components of HMG’s response 23 4.RISK MANAGEMENT: SCIENTIFIC MONITORING AND PROTECTING LIVES AND HEALTH 25 4.1 A reactive strategy 25 4.2 Disaster preparedness -
A Case Study from the South Australian Parliament
Jordan Bastoni is Visiting Research Fellow, School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide The executive versus the legislative council: a case study from the South Australian Parliament Jordan Bastoni This paper considers the relationship between the government of South Australia (SA) and the SA Legislative Council and attempts by the government to maintain supremacy over the Council. The conflicts that arise are examined through a case study of the Council’s attempt to apply scrutiny to a prominent government minister. It is argued that the Rann Government provides a good example of the ways in which governments can attempt to delegitimise political institutions that frustrate and oppose them. Introduction Westminster parliaments are dominated by the executive (Lijphart 1984, 6). This is especially true of Australian parliaments. While all Westminster derived parliamentary systems are noted for their high level of party cohesion, the Australian parliaments are the exemplars of strong party cohesion and discipline. It is highly unusual for members of one major party to ‘cross the floor’ and vote with members of the opposing major party (Jaensch 1986, 32–45). This places a great degree of power in the hands of the government of the day. The government in parliament is powerful. In order to stay in office it needs to maintain a majority in the lower house. Thanks to the high degree of party cohesion, it is generally easy for a government to be sure of maintaining a majority on the floor of the lower house, leaving it unfettered to act as it will in that chamber, subject to the standing orders and public opinion. -
Citizenship, Descent and Place in the British Virgin Islands
Bill Maurer Sta1iford University Children of Mixed Marriages on Virgin Soil: Citizenship, Descent and Place in the British Virgin Islands In this essay, I describe a three-stranded argument over who has rightful claim to citizenship in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Specifically, this essay demonstrates how the law conjures up a domain of "nature" that infonns positions in this argument. There are three parties to this debate: citizens of the BVI who never went abroad for education and employment, citizens of the BVI who left the territory in the 1960s and are now returning, and immigrants to the BVI and their children. For citizens who never emigrated, the law helps construct the nature of identity in tenns of descent, blood, and "race." For immigrants and their children, who make up fifty percent of the present population, the law lends emphasis to region and jurisdiction to construct identity in tenns of predetennined places. For return emigre British Virgin Islanders, the law enables notions of individual ability that appear to make place- and race-based identities superfluous. I will demonstrate how conceptions of belonging and identity based on place and conceptions based on descent work in concert with notions of individual ability to naturalize inequalities between British Virgin Islanders and immigrants. Specifically, I will focus on the inequalities between those who emigrated and those who stayed behind, and between those who emigrated and those BVIslander and immigrants who now work for them. I argue that the law, especially citizenship but also the laws of jurisdictional division, is critical to the creation and maintenance of these competing identities and the inequalities they cover over or remove from discussion. -
General Assembly Distr.: General 17 February 2010
United Nations A/AC.109/2010/7 General Assembly Distr.: General 17 February 2010 Original: English Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Montserrat Working paper prepared by the Secretariat Contents Page I. General ....................................................................... 3 II. Constitutional, political and legal issues ............................................ 3 III. Budget ....................................................................... 6 IV. Volcanic activity and the environment.............................................. 6 V. Economic conditions ............................................................ 7 A. General................................................................... 7 B. Agriculture................................................................ 7 C. Financial services .......................................................... 8 D. Tourism .................................................................. 8 E. Construction and housing .................................................... 9 F. Utilities and communication ................................................. 9 VI. Social conditions ............................................................... 10 A. General................................................................... 10 B. Labour ................................................................... 10 C. Education and culture ...................................................... -
22 the Legislature
MODULE - 6 The Legislature The Constitution of India-II 22 Notes THE LEGISLATURE You have read in the preceding lesson about the Union Executives and the State Executives which are responsible to their respective legislatures ie the Union Parliament and the State Legislatures respectively. The Union Parliament consists of the President and the two Houses of the Parliament namely the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Lok Sabha which is also called the lower house is the popular house whose members are directly elected by the people. Rajya Sabha is the upper house which represents the States of the Indian Union whose members are elected by the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies and the Union Territories. President of India is also an integral part of the Indian Parliament although he/ she is not a member of either House. Similarly, Governor is an integral part of the State Legislature. The State legislatures are bicameral/unicameral where the Lower House is called Vidhan Sabha or Legislative Assembly and the Upper House is called Vidhan Parishad or Legislative Council . In this lesson, we will study about these legislative bodies at the Centre as well as in the States. OBJECTIVES After studying this lesson, you will be able to: z recall that the President of India is an integral part of the Indian Parliament; z describe the composition of the Union as well as the State Legislatures; z explain the powers and functions of the Indian Parliament and the State Legislatures; z highlight that the Lok Sabha is more powerful than Rajya Sabha; z distinguish between an ordinary bill and a money bill; z explain the law making procedure in Indian Parliament; and z compare the powers and functions of the Parliament to those of the State Legislatures. -
Bermuda Constitution Order 1968
Q UO N T FA R U T A F E BERMUDA BERMUDA CONSTITUTION ORDER 1968 BX 182 / 1968 [made by Her Majesty-in-Council under the Bermuda Constitution Act 1967 of the United Kingdom [title 2 item 9] TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Citation and Commencement 2 Interpretation 3 Revocations 4 Establishment of Constitution 5 Existing laws 6 Existing officers 7 Holding of general election prior to the appointed day [omitted] 7A First appointment of Secretary to Executive Council [omitted] 8 Rules of procedure of Legislative Council and House of Assembly [omitted] 9 Legal proceedings [omitted] 10 Regulations for retirement, compensation, etc. of certain officers [omitted] SCHEDULE 1 TO THE ORDER INSTRUMENTS REVOKED SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER THE CONSTITUTION OF BERMUDA THE SCHEDULE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF BERMUDA FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF BERMUDA SECOND SCHEDULE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF BERMUDA CONSTITUENCIES 1 BERMUDA CONSTITUTION ORDER 1968 Citation and Commencement 1 (1) This Order may be cited as the Bermuda Constitution Order 1968. (2) This Order shall come into force on 21st February 1968. [but 2 June 1968 is the “appointed day”] Interpretation 2 (1) In this Order— “the Constitution” means the Constitution of Bermuda set out in Schedule 2 to this Order; “the appointed day” means such day after the return of the writs of election in the general election referred to in section 7 of this Order as may be appointed by the Governor by proclamation published in the Gazette; [2 June 1968 was appointed by proclamation of the Governor SR&O 55/1968] “the existing instruments” means the instruments revoked by section 3 of this Order; “the existing laws” means any laws (including Resolves) made before the appointed day by any legislature for the time being constituted as the legislature of Bermuda and having effect as part of the law of Bermuda immediately before the appointed day [2 June 1968] (whether or not they have then come into operation) and any rules, regulations, orders or other instruments made in pursuance of such laws and having such effect.