(5) This paragraph does not apply to Constitutional Bills. Money Bills 6. (1) In this paragraph— "Money Bill" means a Bill which the Speaker has certified to be a Money Bill. (2) The Senate does not have power to amend a Money Bill but may recommend that the National Assembly make amendments to it. (3) The Clerk of Parliament must certify every amendment which the Senate has recommended should be made to a Money Bill and must transmit the certified amendment to the National Assembly. (4) The National Assembly must consider any amendments transmitted to it under this paragraph and may incorporate them into the Money Bill concerned. (5) If the Senate does not pass a Money Bill within eight sitting days counted from the day the Bill was introduced into the Senate, the National Assembly may resolve that the Bill should be presented to the President, and the Bill may then be presented to the President in the form in which it was passed by the National Assembly. (6) A Money Bill that has been presented to the President pursuant to a resolution under subparagraph (5)(a) is regarded as having been passed by Parliament in the form in which it was passed by the National Assembly; and (b) when it is presented to the President for assent, must be accompanied by a certificate from the Speaker stating that the Bill was passed in terms of this paragraph. PART III REPORTS OF PARLIAMENTARY LEGAL COMMITTEE Reports of Parliamentary Legal Committee on Bills 7. (1) Subject to this paragraph, neither House may give a Bill its final reading unless a report of the Parliamentary Legal Committee on the Bill has been presented to the House. (2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to— (a) a Constitutional Bill; or (b) any Bill on which the Parliamentary Legal Committee has already reported unless the Bill has been amended since that report. (3) If the Parliamentary Legal Committee has not reported on a Bill within the period specified in Standing Orders, or within any extension of that period granted in accordance with Standing Orders, the Committee must be presumed to be of the opinion that no provision of the Bill, if enacted, would contravene this Constitution, and the House concerned may proceed with the Bill as if the Committee had reported accordingly. (4) If the Parliamentary Legal Committee reports that a provision of a Bill, if enacted, would contravene this Constitution, the House concerned must consider the report and, if the House resolves that the provision concerned would contravene this Constitution, the House must not pass the Bill containing that provision. - 109 -

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