"1995 (?). Elevated from the House of Keys to the Legislative Council in 2003 Prior to 1 October 1990 the Council of Ministers was called the Executive Council. Council of Ministers of the Isle of Man The Council of Ministers (; often abbreviated informally to ""CoMin"") is the principal executive organ of the Isle of Man Government. Its role is similar to, though not identical with, that of the Cabinet in the United Kingdom. Until 1990, its title was the Executive Council. The Executive Council, chaired by the Lieutenant Governor and including members of Tynwald, was established in 1949, and"
"House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower branch of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written by an English scholar in Latin, which refers to and (""The Keys of Mann"" and ""The Keys of Law""). There is a dispute, however, over the origin of the name. The word ""keys"" is thought by some to be an English corruption of a form of the Norse verb ""kjósa"" meaning ""to choose"". However, a more"
"Speaker of the House of Keys The Speaker of the House of Keys () is the principal officer of the House of Keys, the lower house of the Isle of Man legislature. The Speaker is elected from the membership of the House at its first sitting after an election. He is responsible for controlling the procedure of the House and for the authoritative interpretation of its standing orders. He sets the business of the House and authorises the order of business of the House for each sitting. The Speaker uses the letters SHK after his name. The Speaker is not"
"was chosen as it was when the ""House of Keys Election Bill"" was passed, making the House of Keys a popularly elected body. In the absence of images depicting the interior, written descriptions were used, in conjunction with inventories. Old House of Keys The Old House of Keys () is the former meeting place of the House of Keys, the lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament. It is located across the street from Castle Rushen in Castletown, the former capital of the Isle of Man, in the south of the island. The building was used as the"
"of the House of Keys in 1898 by Arthur William Moore. Following the collapse of Dumbell's Bank, Mylrea resigned his Douglas North seat in May 1900. Through his association with Alexander Bruce, Mylrea became a director of Isle of Man Tramways Company. He also became a director and subsequently Chairman of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and held a keen interest in the development of the Electric Tramways from Douglas to Laxey and Ramsey and from Laxey to the summit of Snaefell. Mylrea became a director of Dumbell's Bank in 1887 and although still a director and shareholder"
"Old House of Keys The Old House of Keys () is the former meeting place of the House of Keys, the lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament. It is located across the street from Castle Rushen in Castletown, the former capital of the Isle of Man, in the south of the island. The building was used as the House of Keys from 1821 until 1874, when the parliament was moved to Douglas. Prior to 1821, the House of Keys had no official home, but met first at Castle Rushen, and later at the Bishop of Sodor and"
"House of Keys moved from Castletown to Douglas. The Isle of Man Census 2011 lists the town's population as 3,097 (2006: 3,109) It is the fourth largest town on the island, after Douglas, Ramsey and Peel, but is also smaller than Onchan and Port Erin, which have the status of villages. The town lies on the northwest side of Castletown Bay. The opposite shore of the bay is the west coast of the distinctively-shaped Langness Peninsula. To the north-east are Ronaldsway Airport and industrial zone, and the village of Ballasalla; to the north-west the villages of Ballabeg and Colby; and"
"parties do not play an important role on the Island. The Isle of Man lowered its voting age from 18 to 16 in 2006. The House of Keys has 24 members, elected in a General Election for a five-year term in 12 two-seat constituencies. The Legislative Council has 11 members: three ex-officio members and eight other members who are elected by the House of Keys for a four-year term. There are elections for commissioners and councillors for the 22 local authorities on the Isle of Man, consisting of 4 town authorities, 2 district authorities, 2 village authorities, and 14 parish"
"penalty. The House of Keys has 24 members, elected for a five-year term. The Isle of Man lowered its voting age from 18 to 16 in 2006. The Isle of Man became the first action for women’s suffrage by granting women who owned property the right to vote in 1881. The ""Employment Act 2006"" sets out a number of employee and employer rights on the Isle of Man such as the right to a minimum wage, the right to a minimum period of notice and unfair dismissals. Pursuant to the ""Miniumum Wage Act 2001"", the Isle of Man has a"
"self-elected body, but following pressure from the public, most notably ""Isle of Man Times"" editor James Brown, the House agreed to be elected by popular vote. During the 1860s, Douglas became more prominent; the Lieutenant Governor moved his residence there in 1861, the Law Courts moved the following year, and by 1869 Douglas had replaced Castletown as the capital of the island. The House of Keys building in Castletown was described as too small, and ""dilapidated with the wallpaper hanging off the wall."" In 1874, the House of Keys moved to the Court House in Douglas, and five years later,"
"building little more than sufficient to contain the number which they consist."" Over twenty years after the Royal Commission's damning report on the state of the library in which the Keys met, the Governor of the Isle of Man, John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, instructed Thomas Brine, the Clerk of Works for public buildings, to cost and draw plans for a new House of Keys. These plans were rejected by the British Home Department and Treasury as too expensive, and despite repeated demands for a new meeting place, the proposal was put on hold. Brine carried out a survey"
"Elections in the Isle of Man The Isle of Man partially elects its legislature at the national level. The High Court of Tynwald consists of two chambers. The House of Keys has 24 members, elected in a general election for a five-year term in 12 two-seat constituencies. Each voter has two votes (but may choose to vote for only one candidate) and in each constituency the two candidates with the most votes are elected. The Legislative Council has 11 members: three ex-officio members and eight other members who are elected by the House of Keys for a five-year term. Political"
"members of the Legislative Council. Legislation does not usually originate in the Council. (There are exceptions: for example the Equality Bill was introduced in the Legislative Council in late 2016.) Thus, the Keys have much more power than the Council, which performs the function of a revising chamber. The House of Keys meets about once each month together with the Legislative Council in a joint session called ""Tynwald Court"". The President of Tynwald, elected by both branches, presides over Tynwald Court and over the Legislative Council. Once each year, however, on Tynwald Day, the Isle of Man's national day, the"
"of Man, the Island’s Legislative Council and the British Home Office on the one side and the members of the House of Keys on the other, on the question of where responsibility for the passing of money bills should sit, with the Keys asserting primacy as the elected representatives of the Manx people. Adkins also sat as a member of the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform of 1917-1918, which looked amongst other things at the proposals for votes for women which came into effect for the 1918 general election. The conference also proposed the ending of plural voting and the"
"likely explanation is that it is a mishearing of the Manx-language term for ""four and twenty"", (), the House having always had 24 members. The Manx-language name of the House of Keys remains (""The Four and Twenty""). Members are known as ""Members of the House of Keys"" (MHKs). Citizens over the age of 16 may vote, while one must be at least 18 years old and a resident of the Island for three years to be elected an MHK. There are 12 constituencies, mainly based on the sheadings and on local government units. (A few local government units are split"
"law books were also stored in The Lord's Treasury at Castle Rushen. The Castle was a meeting place in the 16th century for the ""24 Keys"" – an early name for the Manx Parliament's lower house, the House of Keys. The Keys had no permanent residence until 1710, meeting on occasion at Castle Rushen. From 1710 the Keys met at the Bishop Wilson's library in Castletown before moving to a dedicated building (The Old House of Keys) in 1821. Since 1874 the House of Keys has been located in the Isle of Man's post-1869 capital of Douglas. The 18th century"
"robe was donated by the Speaker of the House of Commons in 1966 to commemorate the centenary of popular elections to the House of Keys. On 27 September 2016, Juan Watterson was elected as Speaker, the youngest person to hold the office since Sir John Senhouse Goldie-Taubman. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Following the election of Noel Cringle as President of Tynwald Speaker of the House of Keys The Speaker of the House of Keys () is the principal officer of the House of Keys, the lower house of the Isle of Man legislature. The Speaker is elected from the membership of the House at"
"retired from the House of Keys at the 2011 General Election. In 2006 he stood for Chief Minister of the Isle of Man and then Speaker but was unsuccessful in both. He is known to be a supporter of the British Crown in general and was against the move to rename the Lieutenant Governor to Crown Commissioner. David Cannan John David Qualtrough Cannan MHK was the Member of the House of Keys for Michael and Chairman of the Isle of Man Water Authority. He is the son of former Chaplain of the House of Keys, Rev Canon Charles Cannan. He"
"down. On his retirement from the Keys, he was presented with the antique Speaker's chair belonging to the House. In politics he was a Tory of the old school. He was also Captain of the Parish of Rushen. Edward Moore Gawne Edward Moore Gawne (1802–1871) was Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. Mr Gawne served as a Member of the House of Keys from 1829, at the relatively young age of 26, and became Speaker in 1854 following the death of his uncle. Having fought strenuously against the introduction of popular elections, Gawne oversaw what"
"High Bailiff of Castletown by the Isle of Man's Lieutenant Governor, Henry Loch. It was said of him that as High Bailiff his conduct upon the Bench was distinguished by the utmost impartiality. As chief magistrate of Castletown he kept a watchful eye over its interests and was always said to be ready to take the lead in any advancement of the town. Due to his various connections, Jeffcott became the Member of the House of Keys for Castletown in 1855. At this time the House of Keys met in the ancient capital of the Isle of Man, Castletown, and"
"to: Colonel Wilks was voicing the opinion of the House of Keys, of which he was a member, when he declared in further correspondence that: The Attorney General of the Isle of Man was at the time William Frankland, said to of been a relative of Smelt. Frankland declared in a letter to the Home office that Governor Smelt was: In 1816 Frankland was succeeded in the office of Attorney General by John Clarke who, in a letter to the Home Office relative to the constant disputes with the Duke of Atholl, said that: Feeling acutely with regard to his"
"the House of Keys as an Independent representing Ramsey in a 1984 by-election. He had first, unsuccessfully, contested Ramsey in 1976, as a candidate for Manx nationalist party Mec Vannin. He served in numerous ministerial roles including Minister for Tourism and Transport, from 1986–90, Minister of Tourism, Leisure and Transport, from 1990–94, Minister of Industry, from 1991–96, Minister of Home Affairs, from 1996–2001, Minister of the Treasury, from 2001–10 and Minister for Economic Development, from 2010–11. He was formerly the Minister for Economic Development of the Isle of Man Government and is Member of the House of Keys for Ramsey."
"authorities. Elections took place for the Board of Education until this was dissolved in 2009. Elections in the Isle of Man The Isle of Man partially elects its legislature at the national level. The High Court of Tynwald consists of two chambers. The House of Keys has 24 members, elected in a general election for a five-year term in 12 two-seat constituencies. Each voter has two votes (but may choose to vote for only one candidate) and in each constituency the two candidates with the most votes are elected. The Legislative Council has 11 members: three ex-officio members and eight"
"the 24 Members of the House of Keys, commonly referred to as ""the Keys"". Four members were present in the Keys for each of the six sheadings of the island. The earliest surviving record of the Keys dates from 1417. The Keys were not originally an elected body, and membership was for life. When a vacancy arose the remaining members selected the replacement member. In general, membership of the Keys passed down through the leading families on the island. In the 16th century the Keys met irregularly. They were akin to a jury which was summoned from time to time"
"of Mann had seldom, if ever, functioned as model rulers, but most of them had taken some personal share in its government, and had interested themselves in the well-being of the inhabitants. But now the whole direction of its affairs became the work of officials who regarded the island as a pestilent nest of smugglers, from which it seemed their duty to extract as much revenue as possible. There was some alleviation of this state of things between 1793 and 1826, when John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl served as Governor, since, though he quarrelled with the House of Keys"
"Tenants, Inhabitants, and Commons of the same Land where the Lord's Right is declared in the following Words"""" Furthermore, the Commissioners' report noted that prior to the revestment, no ""minutes or journals"" of the proceedings of the Council or the House of Keys had been kept. In 2007, the island's system of government was reviewed with plans to transform the Legislative Council into a directly elected chamber, echoing the push for reform in the UK's House of Lords and the abolition of indirectly elected Conseillers in Guernsey. To date, no legislation has successfully passed through the House of Keys. The"
"Bernie May Bernard ""Bernie"" May MHK (born 6 July 1941) is a British politician and entrepreneur, who was a Member of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man and Government Minister. Born on 6 July 1941 to Harry Turner May and Lilian Freda (née Nicholl) in Hyde, Cheshire, he was raised on the Isle of Man and educated at Douglas High School. He later went on to own and operate a taxi company on the island and was also a member of Douglas Town Council before he was elected as a Member of the House of Keys for"
"had met with fierce resistance from the inhabitants, led by the then Speaker of the House of Keys, Sir George Moore. The long title of the Act was """"An Act for carrying into Execution a Contract, made pursuant to the Act of Parliament of the 12th of his late Majesty King George 1st, between the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl, the proprietors of the Isle of Man, and their Trustees, for the purchase of the said Island and its dependencies, under certain exceptions therein particularly mentioned."""" Having taken effect and therefore being effectively"
"part of the parish of Rushen and now consists of most of the parish of Rushen, plus the village districts of Port Erin and Port St Mary. It now elects two MHKs. This information is incomplete. Rushen (constituency) ""Not to be confused with Rushen (parish) or Rushen (sheading). Rushen () is a House of Keys constituency in the south of the Isle of Man which incorporates most of the parish of Rushen together with the village districts of Port Erin and Port St Mary. Until 2016 the constituency covered the whole of the sheading of Rushen except for the parish"
"became a MHK again. He became the Member for Social Security in August 2005. He is also a former Minister in Sir Miles Walker's Council. Delaney stood down from the House of Keys in October 2006 due to ill health. Dominic Delaney Dominic Delaney is a former member of the House of Keys and the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man, where he sat as a member of the Alliance for Progressive Government. He was once called ""one of the Island's most outspoken politicians"". Delaney was born in Douglas in 1943 and attended St Mary's School. He is a"
"John Houghton (politician) John Houghton MHK is a Member of the House of Keys for Douglas North and is currently Chairman of the Civil Service Commission. He is an outspoken critic of both the Isle of Man Constabulary and in particular its Chief Constable, Mike Culverhouse. Houghton was a former Commandant of the Special Constabulary and as such is a staunch ally of Manx Policeman and former DCC Kinrade especially. Houghton has been reprimanded or disciplined on a number of occasions by the President of Tynwald and the Speaker of the House of Keys for his unparliamentary language. In 2009"
"Lieutenant Governor presides. The House of Keys usually meets in their chamber in the Legislative Buildings in Douglas. Seating is allocated in alphabetical order by constituency name (in English). On 14 March 2017 the Keys met in the Old House of Keys in Castletown, for the first time since 1874, to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the first elected House of Keys. From 1 April 2014, For details of the members' pension scheme and a list of the additional sums payable to certain office-holders, see the official Tynwald page. House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected"
"Man's library in Castletown. After criticism from a Royal Commission, plans were drawn up for a new meeting house for the Keys in 1813, but after concerns about the cost, they were redrawn and approved in 1819. The building, designed by Thomas Brine, was completed in 1821. It housed the House of Keys until 1874, when the Keys followed the other primary functions of the island and moved to Douglas. After their move, the Old House became a branch of 's Bank, and later Parr's Bank. In 2000, Manx National Heritage acquired the building and began restoring the house to"