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Chapter 13 - Financial legislation
Procedure Committee’s proposals
The Procedure
Committee, in its first
report of 1996 (PP 194/1996), recommended a scheme for the interpretation and
application of section 53 of the Constitution, based on the foregoing analysis.
Essentially, the scheme would require bills which appropriate money, either
directly or indirectly, to contain an appropriation clause and to be first
introduced into the House of Representatives, and bills which increase taxation
to be treated as bills imposing taxation, and would provide for certifications
by the government as to whether particular amendments moved in the Senate would
increase expenditure from an indefinite appropriation, with statements of reasons
for such certification. This proposal has not yet been adopted by the Senate.
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