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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
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