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    "content": "The second one is the Annual County Allocation of Revenue Bill mentioned in Article 218. The Constitution is not ambiguous because it is very specific to the Bill that it refers to as a Special Bill concerning county. That is the Annual County Allocation of Revenue Bill. If you have to categorize Division of Revenue Bill as a Bill concerning county, the only alternative you have is to refer to it as an Ordinary Bill. However, if you call it an Ordinary Bill, there is a danger because the Constitution has stipulated how to transact these two Bills. If it is a Special Bill, we can only overrule the Senate by two- thirds majority or we can veto the Senate but with two-thirds majority. There is no provision for simple majority if it is an Ordinary Bill. I want to emphasize this because I saw and I do not want to quote some rulings made elsewhere because our Standing Orders stop us from doing that. This is because there was a suggestion that this House can determine this Bill by simple majority. Our Constitution does not provide that the National Assembly can overrule the Senate by simple majority."
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