IV.  Amerika,  1369  246.  Canada.

10.  The  provisions  of  this  act  referring  to  the  governor-general  extend  and
apply  to  the  governor-general  for  the  time  being  of  Canada,  or  other  the  chief
executive  officer  or  administrator  for  the  time  being  carrying  on  the  government
of  Canada  on  behalf  and  in  the  name  of  the  queen,  by  whatever  title  he  is  designated.

11.  There  shall  be  a  council  to  aid  and  advise  in  the  government  of  Canada,
to  be  styled  the  queen’s  privy  council  for  Canada;  and  the  persons  who  are  to  the
members  of  that  council  shall  be  from  time  to  time  chosen  and  summoned  by  be
governor-general  and  sworn  in  as  privy  councillors,  and  members  thereof  may  be
from  time  to  time  removed  by  the  governor-general.

12.  All  powers,  authorities  and  functions,  which  under  any  act  of  the  parliament
of  Great  Britain,  or  of  the  parliament  of  the  united  kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and
Ireland,  or  of  the  legislature  of  Upper  Canada,  Lower  Canada,  Canada,  Nova  Scotia
or  New  Brunswick,  are  at  the  union  vested  in  or  exercisable  by  the  respective
governors  or  lieutenant-governors  of  those  provinces  with  the  advice,  or  with  the
advice  and  consent,  of  the  respective  executive  councils  thereof,  or  in  conjunction
with  those  councils,  or  with  any  number  of  members  thereof,  or  by  those  governors
or  those  lieutenant-governors  individually,  shall,  as  far  as  the  same  continue  in
existence  and  capable  of  being  exercised  after  the  union  in  relation  to  the  government
of  Canada,  be  vested  in  and  exercisable  by  the  governor-general,  with  the  advice,
or  with  the  advice  and  consent,  of  or  in  conjunction  with  the  queen’s  privy  council
for  Canada,  or  any  members  thereof,  or  by  the  governor-general  individually,  as
the  case  requires,  subject,  nevertheless  (except  with  respect  to  such  as  exist  under
acts  of  the  parliament  of  Great  Britain  or  of  the  parliament  of  the  united  kingdom
of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland)  to  be  abolished  or  altered  by  the  parliament  of  Canada.

13.  The  provisions  of  this  act  referring  to  the  governor-general  in  council  shall
be  construed  as  referring  to  the  governor-general  acting  by  and  with  the  advice
of  the  queen’s  privy  council  for  Canada.

14.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  queen,  if  her  majesty  thinks  fit,  to  authorize  the
governor-general  from  time  to  time  to  appoint  any  person  or  any  persons  jointly
or  severally  to  be  his  deputy  or  deputies  within  any  part  or  parts  of  Canada,  and
in  that  capacity  to  exercise  during  the  pleasure  of  the  governor-general  such  of  the
powers,  authorities  and  functions  of  the  governor-general  as  the  governor-general
deems  it  necessary  or  expedient  to  assign  to  him  or  them,  subject  to  any  limitations
or  directions  expressed  or  given  by  the  queen;  but  the  appointment  of  such  a  deputy
or  deputies  shall  not  affect  the  exercise  by  the  governor-general  himself  of  any  power,
authority  or  function.

15.  The  command-in-chief  of  the  land  and  naval  militia  and  of  all  naval  and
military  forces,  of  and  in  Canada,  is  hereby  declared  to  continue  and  be  vested  in
the  queen.

16.  Until  the  queen  otherwise  directs,  the  seat  of  government  of  Canada  shall
be  Ottawa.
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