(3) There shall be a council, to be styled the Privy A.D. 1927; Council of Scotland, and the members of that council shall be chosen and summoned by the Lord High Commissioner, and sworn as privy councillors, and members 5 of that council may be removed by the Lord High Commissioner.

(4) The power conferred upon the Lord High Commissioner as the representative of the Crown in Scotland shall be exercised through such Scottish depart10 ments as may be established by Scottish Act or subject to any alteration by Scottish Act by the Lord High Commissioner, and the Lord High Commissioner may appoint officers to administer those departments, and those officers shall hold office during the pleasure of the Lord 15 High Commissioner.

(5) The persons who are for the time being heads of such Scottish departments as may be determined by Scottish Act, or in the absence of any such determination, by the Lord High Commissioner, and such other persons 20 (if any) as the Lord High Commissioner may appoint, shall be the Scottish Ministers:

Provided that

(a) No such person shall be a Scottish Minister
unless he is a member of the Privy Council
of Scotland; and

(b) No such person shall hold office as a Scottish
Minister for a longer period than six months
unless he is or becomes a member of the Scots
Parliament, but in reckoning those six months
any time prior to the date of the first meeting
of the Scots Parliament, or during which
that Parliament stands prorogued shall be
excluded; and

(c) Any such person not being the head of a
Scottish department shall hold office as a
Scottish Minister during the pleasure of the
Lord High Commissioner in the same manner
as the head of a Scottish department holds his
office.

(6) The persons who are Scottish Ministers for the time being shall be an executive committee of the Privy Councillors of Scotland (in this Act referred to as the

"Executive Committee ") to aid and advise the Lord High Commissioner in the exercise of his executive power in relation to Scottish services. The Executive Committee shall be responsible to the Scots Parliament.

(7) The persons who are Scottish Ministers shall 5 receive such remuneration as may from time to time be provided by Scottish Act.

(8) The seat of the Scots Parliament shall be at Edinburgh, or such other place as the said Parliament may determine.

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(9) When the Executive Committee is first appointed the control of all persons and matters in Scotland presently vested in and exercised by the Imperial Parliament shall be transferred from the Imperial Parliament at Westminster to the Scots Parliament, and the national 15 services and departments shall become Scottish services, and be under the sole control of the Scots Parliament.

4. (1) There shall be a session of the Scots Parliament once at least in every year, so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the 20 Parliament in one session and their first sitting in the next session.

(2) The Lord High Commissioner shall, in His Majesty's name, summon, prorogue, and dissolve the Scots Parliament.

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5.-(1) So soon as any Bill shall have been passed or deemed to have been passed by the Scots Parliament, the Executive Committee shall present the same to the Lord High Commissioner for the signification by him, in the King's name, of the King's assent, and the Lord 30 High Commissioner may withhold the King's assent or reserve the Bill for the signification of the King's pleasure:

Provided that the Lord High Commissioner shall in the withholding of such assent to or the reservation of 35 any Bill act in accordance with the law, practice, and constitutional usage governing the like withholding of assent or reservation in the Dominion of Canada.

(2) A bill reserved for the signification of the King's pleasure shall not have any force unless and until within 40 one year from the day on which it was presented to the

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Lord High Commissioner for His Majesty's assent the A.D. 1927. Lord High Commissioner makes known by message to

the Scots Parliament, or by proclamation that it has received His Majesty's assent.

Bills passed by the Scots Parliament to which the Lord High Commissioner has given the assent of His Majesty shall become laws of Scotland.

6. (1) The Scots Parliament shall subject to the Composition provisions of this Act, consist of one hundred and forty- of Scots 10 eight members returned by the existing parliamentary Parliament. constituencies of Scotland.

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(2) The parliamentary constituencies aforesaid shall each return two members, excepting Dundee, which shall return four members.

(3) All citizens of Scotland without distinction of sex, who have reached the age of twenty-one years and who comply with the provisions of the prevailing electoral laws shall have the right to vote for members of the Scots Parliament.

(4) The election of members to the Scots Parliament shall be held in the same manner as the election of members by constituencies in Scotland to serve in the Imperial Parliament.

(5) Any peer, whether of the United Kingdom, 25 Great Britain, England, Scotland, or Ireland, otherwise qualified under subsection (2) hereof to be registered as a parliamentary elector in any constituency, but disqualified by reason of being a peer, shall be entitled to be registered, and when registered, to vote in that 30 constituency in the election of members of the Scots Parliament.

(6) In the election of members to serve in the Scots Parliament each elector shall be entitled to two votes, save in Dundee, where each elector shall have four votes: 35 Provided that no elector shall be entitled to record more than one vote for any one candidate in any election.

(7) The Scots Parliament when summoned shall, unless sooner dissolved, have continuance for three years from the day on which the summons directs the Parlia40 ment to meet, and no longer.

(8) The Scots Parliament may alter as respects the Scots Parliament the qualification and registration of

A.D. 1927. electors, the laws relating to elections, and the questioning of elections, the constituencies, and the distribution of the members among the constituencies.

Privileges,

qualifications, &c.

of members

of Scots

(9) The power of the Scots Parliament to make laws shall include power to make laws altering its constitution. 5

7.-(1) All existing election laws, powers, privileges, and immunities relating to the Commons House of the Imperial Parliament, and the members and committees thereof shall, so far as applicable, and subject to the Parliament. provisions of this Act, and especially to any provision 10 enabling the Scots Parliament to alter and define those laws, powers, privileges, and immunities, extend to the Scots Parliament, and the members and committees of the said Parliament, and, until so altered and defined, shall be those held and enjoyed by the Commons House 15 of the Imperial Parliament and its members and committees at the date of the passing of this Act.

(2) Every citizen of Scotland who has reached the age of twenty-one years and is not disqualified or incapacitated by any provision of the existing electoral 20 laws shall be eligible to become a member of the Scots Parliament:

Provided that no person otherwise qualified shall be disqualified for being a member of the Scots Parliament by reason only that he is a peer, whether of the United 25 Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Scotland, or Ireland.

(3) A member of the Scots Parliament may resign his seat by giving notice of resignation to the person, and in the manner directed by the standing orders of the Scots Parliament, or, if there is no such direction, by 30 notice in writing of resignation sent to the Lord High Commissioner, and his seat shall become vacant on such notice of resignation being given.

(4) The powers of the Scots Parliament shall not. be affected by any vacancy therein, or by any defect in 35 the nomination, election, or qualification of any member thereof.

(5) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, declare that the holders of offices in the Scottish Executive, named in the Order, shall not be disqualified for being members 40 of the Scots Parliament by reason of holding office under the Crown, and except as otherwise provided by Scottish

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Acts, the Order shall have effect as if it were enacted in A.D. 1927. this Act, and on acceptance of any such office the seat

of any such person in the Scots Parliament shall not be vacated.

tation in

8. On and after the appointed day the members of Cessation of the present Commons House of the Imperial Parliament Scottish who represent Scottish constituencies shall cease to be represenmembers thereof, and no writ shall be issued for the House of election of a member to serve in the Commons House of Commons. 10 the Imperial Parliament for a constituency in Scotland.

9. (1) There shall be a Scottish Exchequer, and Scottish a Scottish Consolidated Fund separate from those of the revenue United Kingdom.

(2) The proceeds of all taxes and duties imposed, 15 charged, levied, and collected in Scotland, including all taxes and duties levied by the Imperial Parliament in Scotland, shall on and after the appointed day be paid into the Scottish Exchequer. For the purposes of this Act all Imperial taxes and duties in force in Scotland on the 20 appointed day shall be deemed to be Scottish taxes and duties in like manner as if they had been imposed, charged, levied, and collected by the Scots Parliament.

(3) All sums paid into the Scottish Exchequer shall form the Scottish Consolidated Fund, and, subject to the 25 provisions of any Act of the Scots Parliament, all such sums shall be appropriated to the public service of Scotland by Scottish Act, and shall not be applied for any purpose for which they are not so appropriated.

(4) Subject to the provisions of this Act, or as may 30 be otherwise provided by Scottish Act, the existing law relating to the Exchequer and Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom shall apply with the necessary modifications to the Scottish Exchequer and Scottish Consolidated Fund, and an officer shall be appointed by the 35 Lord High Commissioner to be Comptroller and Auditor General for Scotland.

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(5) The Comptroller and Auditor General shall not be removed except on an address from the Scots Parliament.

(6) Save as may be otherwise provided by Scottish Act, the accounts of the Scottish Consolidated Fund shall be audited as appropriation accounts in manner provided

and expen

diture.