CONSTITUTION ACT 1975 - SECT 64 Appropriation Bills

CONSTITUTION ACT 1975 - SECT 64

    (1)     A Bill shall not be taken to be a Bill for appropriating any part of the Consolidated Fund or for imposing any duty rate tax rent return or impost by reason only of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties or for the demand or payment or appropriation of fees for licences or fees for services under such Bill.

    (2)     The Council may once at each of the undermentioned stages of a Bill which the Council cannot alter return such Bill to the Assembly suggesting by message the omission or amendment of any items or provisions therein, and the Assembly may if it thinks fit make any of such omissions or amendments with or without modifications:

Provided that the Council may not suggest any omission or amendment the effect of which will be to increase any proposed charge or burden on the people.

    (3)     The stages of a Bill at which the Council may return the Bill with a message as aforesaid shall be—

        (a)     the consideration of the Bill in Committee;

        (b)     the consideration of the report of the Committee; and

        (c)     the consideration of the question that the Bill be read a third time.

No. 6224 s. 55.

S. 65 substituted by No. 2/2003 s. 14.