122 276. Subject to the provisions of section 274 ­ (a) any right, prerogative, privilege or function which under the existing law vested in the king shall vest in the king or other person or authority as is specified under this Constitution; (b) any right, privilege, obligation, liability, or function vested in or subsisting against the Government by or under an existing law shall continue to so vest or subsist. Succession to property 277. (1) Subject to the provisions of Chapter XII, all properties and all assets which immediately before the commencement of this Constitution were vested in any authority or person for the purposes of, or in the right of the Government or in the Government shall, on the commencement of this Constitution, vest in the Government. (2) Any property which was liable, immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, to estreat or to be forfeited to the Government shall be liable to estreat or to be forfeited to the Government under this Constitution. Succession to contracts 278. Where there is subsisting immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, a contract which has been entered into by or on behalf of Government, then on and after the commencement of this Constitution, all rights, liabilities and obligations of the Government under the contract shall be vested in or, as the case may be, subsist against the Government, and the contract shall otherwise continue to be of full force and effect. International agreements etc 279. Where Swaziland or the Government was a party immediately before the commencement of this Constitution to any treaty, agreement or convention, such treaty, agreement or convention shall not be affected by the commencement of this Constitution, and Swaziland or the Government as the case may be, shall continue to be party to it. _____________ FIRST SCHEDULE SUMMONING AND PROCEDURE OF JOINT SITTINGS OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY Sections 36, 115, 116, 117, 245, 246, 247 1. (1) The King shall summon a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Assembly – (a) whenever the King is informed by the Prime Minister that it is necessary in order that a joint sitting may deliberate and vote upon the question of 122