[Article 55] Federal Constitution 59 Summoning, prorogation and dissolution of Parliament 55. (1) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall from time to time summon Parliament and shall not allow six months to elapse between the last sitting in one session and the date appointed for its first meeting in the next session. (2) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may prorogue or dissolve Parliament. (3) Parliament unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date of its first meeting and shall then stand dissolved. (4) Whenever Parliament is dissolved a general election shall be held within sixty days from the date of the dissolution and Parliament shall be summoned to meet on a date not later than one hundred and twenty days from that date. (5) A Bill pending in Parliament shall not lapse by reason of the prorogation of Parliament. (6) (Repealed). (7) A Bill pending the assent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under Clause (4) or Clause (4a) of Article 66 shall not lapse by reason of the prorogation or dissolution of Parliament. President and Deputy President of Senate 56. (1) The Senate shall from time to time choose one of its members to be Yang di-Pertua Dewan Negara (President of the Senate) and one to be Deputy President of the Senate, and shall, subject to Clause (3), transact no business while the office of President is vacant other than the election of a President. (2) A member holding office as President or Deputy President shall cease to hold his office on the expiry of the term for which he was elected or appointed a member or on otherwise ceasing to be a member of the Senate, or upon being disqualified under Clause (5), and may at any time resign his office. (3) During any vacancy in the office of President or during any absence of the President from any sitting, the Deputy President or, if the Deputy President is also absent or if his office is also