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1 Where the Legislative Council functions purely as a legislature

• Legislative Council of Brunei (unelected)
• Legislative Council of Hong Kong
• Legislative Council of Macau

2 Where the Legislative Council has assumed extra functions

Usually in this case the Legislative Council functioned as an Upper House or second chamber of a bicameral legislature operating under the Westminster System. The inferior chamber/ Lower House is sometimes the Legislative Assembly.

• In Australia:
  • The New South Wales Legislative Council
  • The Queensland Legislative Council (abolished in 1922)
  • The South Australian Legislative Council
  • The Tasmanian Legislative CouncilThe Legislative Council or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the House of Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 15 members, one from each of fift
  • The Victorian Legislative CouncilThe Legislative Council or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. It serves as a house of review, in a similar fash
  • The Western Australian Legislative Council.
• In BermudaThis article is about the island of Bermuda. See Bermuda sloop and Bermuda rig for the associated sailing terms''. Bermuda is a self-governing island Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, situated in the Atlantic Ocean. In the early 20th century, as m, the Bermudan Legislative Council (renamed the Senate in 1980).
• In CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe: (all abolished)
  • The Legislative Council of Manitoba
  • The Legislative Council of Newfoundland
  • The Legislative Council of New Brunswick
  • The Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island
  • The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia
  • The Legislative Council of QuebecUntil 1968, the Legislative Council of Quebec was the unelected upper house of bicameral legislature in the Canadian province of Quebec. The Legislative Assembly was the elected lower house. In 1968, the Legislative Council was abolished, and the Legislat
  • The Legislative Council of Upper Canada
• In the Isle of ManThe Isle of Man Ellan Vannin in Manx), a British crown dependency, lies in the Irish Sea almost equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 572 km² (221 square miles) and a population of around 76,315 (2001 Census) it arguably h, the Legislative Council of the Isle of ManThe Legislative Council of the Isle of Man is the upper Branch of Tynwald, the Manx legislature. Known in the Manx language as Yn Choonceil Slattyssagh it consists of eleven indirectly elected members, known as Members of the Legislative Council or MLCs..
• In New Zealand, the New Zealand Legislative Council (abolished in 1951).

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