Succession to Government.
2.—(1) Whenever the office of Governor is vacant or the person holding the office of Governor is absent from St. Helena or is from any other cause prevented from or incapable of discharging the functions of his office those functions shall, during Her Majesty’s pleasure, be assumed and performed by such person as Her Majesty may designate by Instructions given under Her Sign Manual and Signet or through a Secretary of State.
(2) Before assuming the functions of the office of Governor, any such person as aforesaid shall make the oaths directed by section 1(3) of this Constitution to be made by a person appointed to the office of Governor.
(3) Any such person as aforesaid shall not continue to perform the functions of the office of Governor after the person holding that office or some other person having a prior right to perform those functions has notified him that he is about to assume, or resume, those functions.
(4) For the purposes of this section a person holding the office of Governor shall not be regarded as absent from St. Helena, or as prevented from or incapable of discharging the functions of the office of Governor, at any time when there is a subsisting appointment of a Deputy under section 3 of this Constitution.