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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(2.) No person shall be qualified for appointment to the Legislative Council unless he is either a natural-born British subject, or a Samoan, or was born in Samoa.

(3.) Unofficial members of the Legislative Council may receive from the Samoan Treasury such remuneration or allowances (if any) as may be prescribed by regulations.

(4.) The powers of the Legislative Council shall not be affected by any vacancy in the membership thereof.

(5.) Every person who executes the office of an official member of the Council during a vacancy in that office or during the absence or incapacity of the holder thereof shall while so acting be entitled to sit and act as a member of the Legislative Council in the place of that official member.

49. The Legislative Council shall meet at such times and at such places as the Administrator determines.

50. The Administrator shall be entitled to preside over every meeting of the Council; but if he is not present at any meeting the members of the Council there present may elect one of their number to preside over that meeting, who shall nevertheless be entitled to vote in the same manner as any other member.

51. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the Council if the number of members present is less than one-half of the total number of the members of the Council.

52. The Legislative Council may make rules regulating the procedure at the meetings thereof.

53. There shall be an officer of the Samoan Public Service, to be called the Clerk of the Legislative Council, who shall keep the records of the Council and perform with respect to the Council such secretarial and other functions as may be required.

54. (1.) The assent of the Administrator to an Ordinance shall be testified by signing a printed copy of the Ordinance and sealing the same with the seal of Samoa.

(2.) The Administrator shall at the same time enter upon the copy so signed and sealed the date of his assent thereto.

55. Every Ordinance so assented to by the Administrator shall come into operation either on the day on which it is so assented to, or at any later date specified in that behalf in the Ordinance.

56. When the Administrator assents to an Ordinance he shall forthwith transmit a printed copy thereof to the Minister of External Affairs.

57. (1.) At any time within one year after the assent of the Administrator has been so given to an Ordinance the Governor-General may, by notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, disallow that Ordinance either wholly or in part.

(2.) On any such disallowance the Ordinance shall, to the extent to which it is so disallowed, become wholly void as if it had been then repealed.

(3.) Any such disallowance shall take effect as aforesaid either on the day of the publication of the notice of disallowance in the New Zealand Gazette or at such later date as is specified in that behalf in the notice.

58. Every Ordinance may be passed either in the English language alone, or both in the English language and in the Native language of Samoa; but if, in the latter case, there is any conflict between the English and the Native version of the Ordinance, the English version shall prevail.

59. All Ordinances, together with such regulations, Orders in Council, Proclamations, warrants, appointments, and other instruments and acts relative to the government of Samoa as the Administrator thinks fit, shall be published in Samoa in an official gazette, to be known as the Western Samoa Gazette, and issued at such times and intervals as the Administrator may direct.

Meetings of Legislative Council.

Administrator to preside at meetings of Council.

Quorum.

Rules of procedure.

Clerk of Legislative Council.

Assent of Administrator.

Commencement of Ordinances so assented to.

Transmission to Minister of Ordinances so assented to.

Disallowance of Ordinances.

Language of Ordinances.

Publication in Western Samoa Gazette.