Legislative Council of the Isle of Man
The Legislative Council ( German: Legislative Council, Manx: Yn Choonceil Slattyssagh ) the Isle of Man is the upper house of the island of Parliament, the Tynwald. The lower house is the House of Keys.
The council consists of eleven indirectly elected members who are designated Member of the Legislative Council ( MLC). The House of Keys selects the MLCs must be resident on the island at least twenty years old and for three years by secret ballot for a term of four years. There are four members elected at once, so that the Council is successively renewed.
Formerly the vice-governor was chairman of the legislative council and the Tynwald Court, a joint session of both chambers. Nowadays, however, is the President of Tynwald, who is elected by the entire Tynwald to six years, of its own motion at the same time Chairman of the Legislative Council. He sits in front of both the Council and the Tynwald Court, unless once a year on Tynwald Day, where still the Lieutenant Governor shall preside. In addition, have the bishop of the Diocese of Sodor and Man of the Church of England and the British monarch appointed by the Attorney General of seats in the Council. The President has only a casting vote a stalemate, the bishop may vote as all other members, the Attorney General did not.
The original mission of the Legislative Council was to advise the Lieutenant Governor and thus executive nature. It consisted entirely of appointed members and was composed as follows:
- Vice- Governor of the Isle of Man
- First Deemster
- Second Deemster
- Trustees of the rollers ( Clerk of the Rolls )
- Attorney General of the Isle of Man
- Settlement receiver ( Receiver General )
- Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man
- Archdeacon of Sodor and Man
- Vicar General
The first seven were from the crown, the two last named by the bishop. In a gradual reform process, the number of judicial and spiritual members was reduced and re- occupied their seats indirectly elected by members. The House of Keys soon removed the Archdeacon, the Vicar General and the settlement receiver. Then the lieutenant governor was removed from the adjudicatory earth bank and the location of the administrator of the roles assumed ex officio of the First Deemster. In 1965, the Second Deemster has been removed from the middle of the Councils, 1975, the First Deemster and finally in 1980 the vice-governor himself Today only the bishop and the Attorney General ex offico members.
The council usually brings no laws on the way (the last Act, which had its origin in the Council, is from 1986). Instead, it examines the laws that makes the House of Keys. The Council has within the Tynwald been elected by Keys Organ little influence.