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This chapter describes how meetings of the Senate occur and the rules governing meetings.
Executive government’s power to determine sessions
Parliaments and sessions
Place of meeting
Opening of a new Parliament
Governor-General’s speech
Opening of a new session of an existing Parliament
Opening by the monarch
Address-in-reply
Swearing of senators elected to periodical vacancies
Proposals to change the opening of Parliament
Sittings and adjournment of the Senate
Summoning of the Senate when not sitting
Meetings after prorogation or dissolution of House
Times of meeting
Suspension of sittings