(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.
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