1- The Parliament and the role of the House
2- House, Government and Opposition
3- Elections and the electoral system
4- Parliament House and access to proceedings
5- Members
6- The Speaker, Deputy Speakers and officers
7- The Parliamentary Calendar
8- Order of business and the sitting day
9- Motions
10- Legislation
11- Financial legislation
12- Senate amendments and requests
- Procedure following Senate consideration
- Senate bills amended by House
13- Disagreements between the Houses
14- Control and conduct of debate
15- Questions
16- Non-government business
17- Documents
18- Parliamentary committees
19- Parliamentary privilege
Appendices

House of Representatives Practice, 6th edition – HTML version

11 - Financial legislation

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Contents

Former financial procedures

For an outline of financial procedures prior to 1963 see pages 345–6 of the first edition. In brief, proposed expenditure measures (budget estimates) were considered and debated in the Committee of Supply, and proposed taxation measures in the Committee of Ways and Means. The relevant appropriation or taxation bills were introduced following the committees’ recommendation that the measures be approved.[17]

17. These committees were ‘committees of the whole House’, that is, all Members were entitled to participate. The committees’ proceedings took place in the Chamber of the House and the Chairman of Committees presided.