V.  Australien.  1427  252.  New  Zealand.

Occasion,  shall  prepare  and  adopt  such  Standing  Rules  and  Orders  as  shall  appear
to  the  said  Council  and  House  of  Representatives  respectively  best  adapted  for  the
orderly  Conduct  of  the  Business  of  such  Council  and  House  respectively,  and  for
the  Manner  in  which  such  Council  and  House  respectively  shall  be  presided  over
in  case  of  the  Absence  of  the  Speaker,  and  for  the  Mode  in  which  such  Council  and
House  shall  confer,  correspond,  and  communicate  with  each  other  relative  to  Votes
or  Bills  passed  by  or  pending  in  such  Council  and  House  respectively,  and  for  the
Manner  in  which  Notices  of  Bills,  Resolutions,  and  other  Business  intended  to  be
submitted  to  such  Council  and  House  respectively  at  any  Session  thereof  may  be
published  in  the  Government  Gazette  or  otherwise  for  general  Information  for  some
convenient  Space  or  Time  before  the  Meeting  of  such  Council  and  House  respectively,
  and  for  the  proper  framing,  entitling,  and  numbering  of  the  Bills  to  be  introduced
  into  and  passed  by  the  said  Council  and  House  of  Representatives,  all  of
which  Rules  and  Orders  shall  by  such  Council  and  House  respectively  be  laid  before
the  Governor,  and  being  by  him  approved  shall  become  binding  and  of  force,  but
subject  nevertheless  to  the  Confirmation  or  Disallowance  of  Her  Majesty  in  mr;  ıner
herein-after  provided  respecting  the  Acts  to  be  made  by  the  Governor  with  the
Advice  and  Consent  of  the  said  Legislative  Council  and  House  of  Representatives;
provided  that  no  such  Rule  or  Order  shall  be  of  force  to  subject  any  Person,  not
being  a  Member  or  Officer  of  the  Council  or  House  to  which  it  relates,  to  any
Pain,  Penalty,  or  Forfeiture,

LIII.  It  shall  be  competent  to  the  said  |  General  Assembly  (except  and  subject
as  herein-after  mentioned)  to  make  Laws  for  the  Peace,  Order,  and  good  Government
  of  New  Zealand,  provided  that  no  such  Laws  be  repugnant  to  the  Law  of
England;  and  the  Laws  so  to  be  made  by  the  said  General  Assembly  shall  control
and  supersede  any  Laws  or  Ordinances  in  anywise  repugnant  thereto  which  may
have  been  made  or  ordained  prior  thereto  by  any  Provincial  Council;  and  any  Law
or  Ordinance  made  or  ordained  by  any  Provincial  Council  in  pursuance  of  the  Authority
  hereby  conferred  upon  it,  and  on  any  Subject  whereon  under  such  Authority
as  aforesaid  it  is  entitled  to  legislate,  shall,  so  far  as  the  same  is  repugnant  to  or
inconsistent  with  any  Act  passed  by  the  General  Assembly,  be  null  and  void.

LIV.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  House  of  Representatives  or  the  Legislative
Council  to  pass,  or  for  the  Governor  to  assent  to  any  Bill  appropriating  to  the  Public
Service  any  Sum  of  Money  from  or  out  of  Her  Majesty’s  Revenue  within  New  Zealand,
unless  the  Governor  on  Her  Majesty’s  Behalf  shall  first  have  recommended  to  the
House  of  Representatives  to  make  Provision  for  the  specific  Public  Service  towards
which  such  Money  is  to  be  appropriated,  and  (save  as  herein  otherwise  provided)
no  Part  of  Her  Majesty’s  Revenue  within  New  Zealand  shall  be  issued  except  in
pursuance  of  Warrants  under  the  Hand  of  the  Governor  directed  to  the  public  Treasurer
  thereof.  '

LV.  It  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  Governor  to  transmit  by  Message  to  either
the  said  Legislative  Council  or  the  said  House  of  Representatives  for  their  Consideration
  the  Drafts  of  any  Laws  which  it  may  appear  to  him  desirable  to  introduce,

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