10. (1) The official language of the Council Negri shall be in English and all proceedings of the Council shall be conducted in that language.
(ii) The Council Negri shall meet in such place and at such times and on such dates as the Chief Secretary may from time to time prescribe by notification in the Gazette: Provided that the Council Negri shall meet at least twice a year.
(iii) The President of the council Negri shall be the Chief Secretary and in his absence, such officer as he may appoint. In the case of an equality of votes, the President shall have a second or casting vote.
(iv) Meetings of the Council Negri shall be open to the public except in so far as the Council Negri may from time to time determine.
11. (i) The Council Negri may with the approval of the Rajah in Council frame and approve by resolution Standing orders for the transaction of its business and may from time to time similarly amend, rescind or add to such Standing Orders.
(ii) The Council Negri may form such committees and delegate such powers to those committess as appear to it to be the most convenient for the transaction of business.
12. The President of the Council Negri may request any person not appointed to the Council Negri to attend any meeting of that Council and assist in the discussion of any question or questions that may arise in the course of its proceedings but such person shall not be entitled to vote.
13. A person appointed to be a member of the Supreme Council or a member of the Council Negri shall, before performing any of the duties or exercising any of the rights attached to such appointment, take the oath prescribed in the Second schedule to this Order for members of the Council to which he is appointed.
14. (i) As from the date of the coming into operation of this Order, the sole power of legislating by the enactment of Orders is vested in the Rajah acting with the advice and consent of the Council Negri.
(ii) All Orders which purport to be enacted by the Rajah with the advice and consent of the Council Negri shall be valid and effectual and duly recognised and judicially noticed as part of the law of Sarawak, and except as is provided by section 15 of this Order no other person or body of persons shall be deemed to have any power of legislating whatsoever
15. Nothing in this Order shall affect:
(a) the validity of any Order enacted according to law before the enactment of this Order except in so far as it is repealed or amended by this or a future Order.
(b) the power of any person or body of persons to make any regulations or rules or by-laws, or to issue any direction or orders, vested in them by any written law, whether such law is made or enacted before or after the enactment of this Order.
