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CABINET MINISTERS
Prime Minister advises the Governor-General to appoint a member of the House of Assembly or of the Senate to be a Minister under Article 73(2) of the Constitution. This advice would be conveyed by a minute or a letter addressed to the Governor-General by the Prime Minister, the document being prepared in the Cabinet Office.
The Prime Minister by minute prepared in the Cabinet Office on his instructions addressed to the Governor-General would, under Article 77 of the Constitution, set out his advice allocating matters and departments of Government to each individual Minister and designating the style which each Minister would be called.
The allocation of portfolios is by the Governor-General in writing, on the advice of the Prime Minister, not by Public Seal. Notification to each Minister would be by letter from the Governor-General, issued from Government House, with a copy to the Secretary to the Cabinet.
The Cabinet Office would then arrange for a press release and for publication in the Gazette.
When allocation is general among Ministers on the occasion of a change of Government or a major reorganization of portfolios, the simplest way for this to be done is to publish an omnibus Gazette Notice covering all Ministers.
Presently there are sixteen Cabinet Ministers.
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