11. [Constitution of Privy Council for Canada.] 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 be Members of that
Council shall be from Time to Time chosen and summoned by the 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 under Acts to be exercised by Governor General with
Advice of Privy Council, or alone.] 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 exerciseable 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 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 exerciseable 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.
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