Committee assignments didn't matter much under the old Council's limited powers.

The old Legislative Council was dissolved in August 1924 and elections held.

The old Council will remain in office until a new one is selected.

Mariano Fiallos, president of the old Council, was re-elected to the post.

On the old Council, three-quarters of the members were whites from European backgrounds.

The Constitution came into force immediately following the dissolution of the old Legislative Council prior to the 2007 general election.

"The old Council would have sidestepped it and then carped at the administration from behind."

The resolution of the old Council, before it became only five, to establish a Planetary Bank, was what had started this trouble now before him.

Like the old Legislative Council, it would not have powers to amend or delay money bills.

The first two elections in 1856 and 1858 were contested under the franchise arrangements that had applied for the old Legislative Council.