Legislative Council of Aden
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File:مبنى المجلس التشريعي لمدينة عدن.jpg in Crater, Aden]]
The Legislative Council of Aden was the legislative body of Aden Colony and State of Aden from 1947 to 1966.
History
The Legislative Council was established in January 1947.{{cite web |title=Aden [and Aden Protectorate]. 1953-58. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002226389n |website=HathiTrust |publisher=Her Majesty's Sationery Office |date=1956|language=en}} It had 23 members. The legislative term was originally four years but changed to five years in 1962.{{cite book |last1=Pieragostini |first1=Karl |title=The Commitment Protected: Aden Joins the Federation (16 January 1963–10 December 1963) |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-21673-4_3 |website=Britain, Aden and South Arabia: Abandoning Empire |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |pages=38–59 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-21673-4_3 |date=1991|isbn=978-1-349-21675-8 }} In 1959 the new Aden Colony constitution introduced a change so that 12 members were elected under a restricted franchise.{{cite web |title=OUTLOOK FOR ADEN AND THE FEDERATION OF SOUTH ARABIA |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v21/d67 |publisher=CIA |date=5 November 1965}} Nine Arabs, two Somalis and one Indian were elected.
Aden Colony joined South Arabia in 1963, which had a legislative council of sixteen elected members, six nominated members, and attorney-general and a speaker as members.{{cite web |title=The Colonial Office list 1966. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c109441016 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}}
The council building was burnt down 1966 before the independence of South Yemen. In the end, the council met in El Jabaly building, King Solomon Street, Crater.{{cite web |title=Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSINAQAAIAAJ |publisher=United Kingdom Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. |language=en |date=1963}}
Legislative Council elections
Presidents 1959-1966
The council was presided by the Governor of Aden until 1959, when the position of an independent speaker appointed by the governor was introduced.
- Sir Arthur Eber Sydney Charles, 1959{{cite web |title=Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph4NAQAAIAAJ |publisher=United Kingdom Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. |language=en |date=1959}}{{cite web |title=The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zk2NAAAAMAAJ |publisher=General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association |language=en |date=1962}}{{cite web |title=The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SONAAAAMAAJ |publisher=General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association |language=en |date=1964}} - 1965.{{cite web |title=Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ctAjltB7y84C |publisher=United Kingdom Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. |language=en |date=1965}} He was assassinated in September 1965.