ACTING GOVERNOR-GENERAL
23.- 1. During any period when the office of Governor-General is vacant
or the holder of the office of Governor-General is absent from Antigua and
Barbuda or is for any other reason unable to perform the functions of his
office those functions shall be performed by such person as Her Majesty may
appoint.
2. Any such person as aforesaid shall not continue to perform the functions of
the office of Governor-General if the holder of the office of Governor-General
has notified him that he is about to assume or resume those functions.
3. The holder of the office of Governor-General shall not for the purposes of
this section, be regarded as absent from Antigua and Barbuda or as unable to
perform the functions of his office-
a. by reason that he is in passage from one part of Antigua and Barbuda to
another; or
b. at any time when there is a subsisting appointment of a deputy under section
25 of this Constitution.
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