Legislative Council Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
A Legislative Council in British constitutional thought is the second-to-top tier of a government led by a Governor-General, Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor, inferior to an Executive Council and equal to or superior to a Legislative Assembly. Though the Legislative Council should in theory operate as a legislature of a governorate (not necessarily a colony) with either appointed or elected members or both, the separate development of governments in the British Empire and Commonwealth has seen the Councils evolve in to many different forms.
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Where the Legislative Council functions purely as a legislature
Where the Legislative Council has assumed extra functions
Usually in this case the Legislative Council functioned as an Upper House or second chamber of a bicameral legislature operating under the Westminster System. The inferior chamber/Lower House is sometimes the Legislative Assembly.
- Isle of Man
- All states of Australia (except Queensland, until 1922)
- New Zealand until 1951
- Bermuda -- renamed Senate in 1980.
- Canada: Manitoba, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Upper Canada, all abolished.
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