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provisions  for  the  imposition  or  appropriation  of  fines  or  other  pecuniary  penalties,
or  for  the  demand  or  payment  or  appropriation  of  fees  for  licenses,  or  fees  for  services
under  the  proposed  law.

The  Senate  may  not  amend  proposed  laws  ımposing  taxation,  or  proposed  laws
appropriating  revenue  or  moneys  for  the  ordinary  annual  services  of  the  Government.

The  Senate  may  not  amend  any  proposed  law  so  as  to  increase  any  proposed
charge  or  burden  on  the  people.

The  Senate  may  at  any  stage  return  to  the  House  of  Representatives  any  proposed
  law  which  the  Senate  may  not  amend,  requesting,  by  message,  the  omission
or  amendment  of  any  items  or  provisions  therein.  And  the  House  of  Representativesmay
  if  it  thinks  fit  make  any  of  such  omissions  or  amendments,  with  or  without
modifications.

Except  as  provided  in  this  section,  the  Senate  shall  have  equal  power  with
the  House  of  Representatives  inrespect  of  all  proposed  laws.

54.  The  proposed  law  which  appropriates  revenue  or  moneys  for  the  ordinary
annual  services  of  the  Government  shall  deal  only  with  such  appropriation.

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55.  Laws  imposing  taxation  shall  deal  only  with  the  imposition  of  taxation,
and  any  provision  therein  dealing  with  any  other  matter  shall  be  of  no  effect.

Laws  imposing  taxation,  except  laws  imposing  duties  of  customs  or  of  excise,
shall  deal  with  one  subject  of  taxation  only;  but  laws  imposing  duties  of  customs
shall  deal  with  duties  of  customs  only,  and  laws  imposing  duties  of  excise  shall  deal
with  duties  of  excise  only.

56.  A  vote,  resolution,  or  proposed  law  for  the  appropriation  of  revenue  or.
moneys  shall  not  be  passed  unless  the  purpose  of  the  appropriation  has  in  the  same
session  been  recommended  by  message  of  the  Governor-General  to  the  House  in
which  the  proposal  originated.

57.  If  the  House  of  Representatives  passes  any  proposed  law,  and  the  Senate
rejects  or  fails  to  pass  it,  or  passes  it  with  amendments  to  which  the  House  of
Representatives  will  not  agree,  and  if  after  an  interval  of  three  months  the  House
of  Representatives,  in  the  same  or  the  next  session,  again  passes  the  proposed  law
with  or  without  any  amendments  which  have  been  made,  suggested,  or  agreed  to
by  the  Senate,  and  the  Senate  rejects  or  fails  to  pass  it,  or  passes  it  with  amendments
to  which  the  House  of  Representatives  will  not  agree,  the  Governor-General  may
dissolve  the  Senate  and  the  House  of  Representatives  simultaneousliy.  But  such
dissolution  shall  not  take  place  within  six  months  before  the  date  of  the  expiry  of
the  House  of  Representatives  by  effluxion  of  time.

If  after  such  dissolution  the  House  of  Representatives  again  passes  the  proposed
law  with  or  without  any  amendments  which  have  been  made,  suggested,  or  agreed
to  by  the  Senate,  and  the  Senate  rejects  or  fails  to  pass  it,  or  passes  it  with  amendments
  to  which  the  House  of  Representatives  will  not  agree,  the  Governor-General
may  convene  8  joint  sitting  of  the  members  of  the  Senate  and  of  the  House  of:  Representativese.
