Section 60
Printing and Circulation of Bills
of State Legislative Assembly Standing Orders
(1)
The Clerk shall be responsible for the printing of every Bill from the draft handed to him by the Attorney-General or the Member in charge of the Bill and shall circulate a printed copy of every Bill to Members.
(2)
Before any Bill is printed the Clerk shall satisfy himself that:-
(a)
the Bill accords with the requirements of the law *;
(b)
the Bill is divided into successive clauses consecutively numbered;
(c)
to every clause there is annexed in the margin or above the clause a short indication of its contents.
(3)
The Clerk shall ascertain and advice the Speaker as to whether:-
(a)
the Bill is affected by the provisions of Standing Order No. 46 (Limitations on subjects of Debate etc.);
(b)
the Bill contains anything foreign to what the title of the Bill imports;
(c)
the Bill is a hybrid Bill and so affected by the provisions of Standing Order
No. 65 (Hybrid Bills);
(d)
if the Bill is a private Bill, the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of
Standing Order No. 81 (Private Bills) have been complied with; and
(e)
the Bill is affected by the provisions of Article 79‡ of the Federal
Constitution.
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(4)
If the Bill involves expenditure of public money an indication of the cost shall be provided by the Member in charge of the Bill and shall be circulated with the Bill.