(v) condoning unauthorised expenditure; (b) proceed upon any motion, including an amendment to a motion, the effect of which, in the opinion of the President of the Senate or the Speaker, as the case may be, is that provision should be made for anything that is specified in subparagraph (a); or (c) receive any petition which, in the opinion of the President of the Senate or the Speaker, as the case may be, requests that provision be made for anything that is specified in subparagraph (a). (2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to a Bill introduced, motion or amendment moved or petition presented by a Minister. PART II PROCEDURE REGARDING BILLS Transmission of Bills between Houses 4. (1) A Bill which originated in one House and has been passed by that House must be transmitted to the other House without delay, and the date of its transmission must be recorded in the journal of the House from which it is transmitted. (2) A Bill that has been transmitted to a House must be introduced into that House without delay, and the House may reject the Bill or pass it with or without amendment. (3) A Bill which, having been transmitted to a House in accordance with this paragraph, is passed by that House with amendments must be returned to the House where it originated with the amendments duly certified by the Clerk of Parliament, and the House to which it is returned may reject, agree to or amend any of those amendments. (4) If, after a Bill has been returned to its originating House in terms of subparagraph (3), any amendment made to it by the other House is rejected or amended by the originating House, the other House may, by message to the originating House pursuant to a resolution, withdraw the amendment or agree to its being amended. Disagreement between Houses 5. (1) If one House passes a Bill and the other House rejects the Bill or fails to introduce it within the time specified in Standing Orders or passes it with amendments to which the House where it originated does not agree, the Bill must be referred without delay to a joint sitting of the Senate and the National Assembly. (2) Before the joint sitting, the Clerk of Parliament must prepare and distribute to all Members of Parliament a copy of any amendments which one House has made to the Bill concerned and to which the other House does not agree. (3) When a Bill is referred to it under this paragraph, a joint sitting of the Senate and the National Assembly may pass the Bill by the affirmative votes of at least half of the total combined membership of the Houses. (4) A Bill that has been passed at a joint sitting of the Senate and the National Assembly in terms of this paragraph— (a) is regarded as having been passed by Parliament in the form in which it was passed by the joint sitting; 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. - 108 -