constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:22 The ordinance-laws deliberated in the Council of Ministers and ratified may only be modified in their provisions by the law. The ordinance-laws cease[,] of right[,] to produce their effects in [the] case of the rejection of the Bill of the law of ratification. • Initiation of general legislation Article 130 The initiative of law belongs concurrently to the Government, to each Deputy and to each Senator. The Bills of law adopted by the Government in the Council of Ministers are deposited with the Bureau of one of the Chambers. However, as it concerns of the Law of Finance, the Bill is imperatively deposited, within the time period provided for in Article 126, with the Bureau of the National Assembly. The Proposals of law, before deliberation and adoption, are notified for information to the Government which addresses, within fifteen days following their transmission, any observations to the Bureau of one or the other of the Chambers. Past this time period, the Proposals of law are brought into deliberation. Article 131 The members of the Government have access to the work of the National Assembly and of the Senate as well as to that of their commissions. If it is required of them, the members of the Government have the obligation to be present at the sittings of the National Assembly and those of the Senate, to take the floor and to provide the parliamentarians any explanations demanded of them on their activities. • Division of labor between chambers Article 132 The discussion of the Bills of law proceeds, before the first Chamber referred to [the matter], on the text deposited by the Government. A Chamber referred to a text voted by the other Chamber deliberates only on the text transmitted to it. Article 133 The members of the Government have the right to propose amendments to the texts under discussion but do not participate in the vote. Article 134 The Proposals of law and the amendments formulated by the members of the National Assembly or of the Senate are not receivable when their adoption would have as a consequence either in a reduction of public resources, or the creation or increase of a public obligation, unless they have been accompanied by proposals concerning the corresponding receipts or economies. Article 135 Every Bill and every Proposal of law is examined successively by the two Chambers with the view to the adoption of an identical text. When, as a result of disaccord between the two Chambers, a Bill or a Proposal of law could not be adopted after one reading by each Chamber, a joint Commission [with] parity, is charged to propose a text on the provisions still under discussion, is put in Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011) Page 36