123 approval, extending approval, or revocation of a declaration of a state of emergency under section 37; (2) (b) in the circumstances mentioned in section 115(3), 116(1) or 117(1); (c) whenever the King is informed by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Assembly that a member of the Senate or the House of Assembly, as the case may be, has given notice of the introduction of a bill to amend the Constitution in terms of section 245(2); (d) whenever it is necessary, in order that a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Assembly may deliberate and vote upon a bill to amend the Constitution in accordance with section 246(1) or 247(1). Subject to sub-paragraph (5), the summons of a joint sitting ­ (a) shall be by message to the Senate and the House of Assembly through the President or the Speaker, as the case may be; (b) shall state the business which the sitting is summoned to transact; and (c) shall appoint a day for the joint sitting, being not more that fourteen days after the date of the message in the case of a sitting for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) (a) and not more than twenty-one days after the message in any other case. (3) The prorogation of Parliament shall not affect any business which a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Assembly has, at the date of the prorogation, been summoned to transact in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph or, which is then under consideration by a joint sitting. (4) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (5), any business pending for consideration or under consideration by a joint sitting when Parliament is dissolved shall lapse at the date of the dissolution. (5) The provisions of section 135 (which relates to the recall of the chambers of Parliament after a dissolution) shall apply for the purpose of authorising the recall of members of those chambers in a joint sitting as they apply for authorising the recall of the chambers of Parliament. 2. The members of the Senate and the House of Assembly shall meet together in joint sitting on the day appointed and on any succeeding day or days that may be necessary and may deliberate and shall vote together upon the business the joint sitting was summoned to transact. 3. Where a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Assembly is summoned for the purpose of deliberating and voting upon a bill in the circumstances mentioned in section 116(1) the following provisions shall apply­ (a) the members of the Senate and the House of Assembly may deliberate and shall vote together upon such admissible amendments to the bill as may be proposed in the joint sitting; (b) if the bill, with such admissible amendments, if any, as are agreed to by the joint sitting, is affirmed by the joint sitting, the bill as so affirmed shall be deemed to have been duly passed; (c) for the purposes of this paragraph ­ 123

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