Letters Patent - Article II

His Powers and Authorities

II. And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor General, with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada or of any members thereof or individually, as the case requires, to exercise all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us in respect of Canada, and for greater certainty but not so as to restrict the generality of the foregoing to do and execute, in the manner aforesaid, all things that may belong to his office and to the trust We have reposed in him according to the several powers and authorities granted or appointed him by virtue of the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1946 and the powers and authorities hereinafter conferred in these Letters Patent and in such Commission as may be issued to him under Our Great Seal of Canada and under such laws as are or may hereinafter be in force in Canada. (1)

(1) The British North America Acts were renamed by the Constitution Act, 1982 to "Constitution Acts." Also, the British North America Act, 1943 and the British North America Act, 1946 were repealed.

Reference: Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985. Appendices, No 31, Letters patent constituting the office of Governor General of Canada, article 2, Effective October 1, 1947.