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(3) Unless otherwise provided in this Constitution, any
person who has been appointed to an office established by this
Constitution may resign that office by writing under his hand in that
behalf addressed to the person or authority by whom he was appointed,
and the resignation shall take effect and the office shall accordingly
become vacant –
(a) at such time or on such date (if any) as may be
specified in the writing; or
(b) when the writing is received by the person or
authority to whom it is addressed or by such other
person as may be authorised to receive it,
whichever is the later:
Provided that the resignation may be withdrawn before
it takes effect if the person or authority to whom the resignation is
addressed consents to its withdrawal.
Re-appointment
and concurrent
appointments.
272. (1) Where any person has vacated any office established
by this Constitution, or any office of Minister or Parliamentary
Secretary established under this Constitution he may, if qualified, be
appointed or elected again to hold that office in accordance with the
provisions of this Constitution.
(2) Where this Constitution vests in any person or
authority the power to make any appointment to any office, a person may
be appointed to that office, notwithstanding that some other person may be
holding that office, when that other person is on leave of absence
pending the relinquishment of the office; and where two or more persons
are holding the same office by reason of an appointment made in
pursuance of this subsection then, for the purposes of any function
conferred upon the holder of that office, the person last appointed shall be
deemed to be the sole holder of the office.
Manner of
taking oaths.
273. Subject to this Constitution, the taking and the subscribing
of the oaths set out in the Second Schedule shall be done in the manner in
which oaths are required to be taken by the Oaths of Officials Act of
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (a).
(a)
Cap.161, Revised Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1990.
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