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Subject to the provisions of the Federal Constitution and this Constitution the Legislative Assembly shall regulate its own procedure and may from time to time make, amend and revoke

Standing Rules and Orders for the regulation and orderly conduct of its own proceedings and the conduct of business.

The Legislative Assembly may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership, and the presence or participation of any person not entitled thereto shall not invalidate any proceedings.

Subject to Clause (4) and to Clause (1) of Article 89 of the

Federal Constitution and to Clause (7) of Article 5 of the Third

Part, the Assembly shall, if not unanimous, take its decision by a simple majority of members voting; and the person presiding shall cast his vote whenever necessary to avoid an equality of votes, but shall not vote in any other case.

In regulating its procedure the Assembly may provide, as respects any decision relating to its proceedings, that it shall not be made except by a specified majority or by a specified number of votes.

Members absent from the Assembly shall not be allowed to vote.

Privileges, efc., of the Legislative Assembly 27a.

The Legislative Assembly shall have the rights, privileges and powers prescribed in the Eighth Schedule.

The Law of the Constitution of 1895

WN on numeration af members 42