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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we have also looked at the other problem of referral of Bills for signature by the President. The current practice is not very clear. We have a situation where the Speaker of one House can run to the President with a Bill, even when the other House has protested that, that Bill has not gone through the normal processes of the Senate or the National Assembly agreeing to. In the new Article 109, we have provided that before a Bill is signed by the President into law, there must be a joint certificate signed by both Speakers, to provide that the Bill has been passed by both Houses. In summary, both Houses will originate Bills with the exception of a few Bills that I will mention. Both Houses will have full legislative mandate and both Speakers must sign a joint certificate before the President can be sure that the Bill has been passed properly by Parliament. That is why it is called a law that has been made by Parliament. The other issue is the definition of a money Bill. Currently, money has been used as an excuse that a Bill is a money Bill to deny Senate the responsibility to debate it. The fact that it could have one or two provisions relating to money issues, it has been used as an excuse that the Senate has no responsibility to debate it because it is a money Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the things that we have done is to clarify that if a Bill has to be considered to be a money Bill, it should only be a Bill that deals with money matters alone. Those are matters of taxes, imposition of charges, appropriation, raising or guarantee of loans and matters incidental to the above. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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