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    "content": "Hon. Members, before we go to that Order, allow me to give guidance. The next Order is to consider the President’s Reservations to the Finance Bill (National Assembly Bill No.51 of 2019). Hon. Members, as you are aware, consideration of the President’s Reservations to any Bill is guided by the provisions of the Constitution, the Standing Orders as well as a Communication I issued on 28th July 2015, which explained matters that are not provided for in the Standing Orders as well as other questions of procedure that kept recurring. In summary, the content of that considered Communication which is now substantively codified in Standing Order No.154, was as follows: (i) THAT, in submitting his reservations on a Bill to the House, the President is not prohibited from including his preferred text of the particular clause, section, subsection or paragraph of the Bill; (ii) THAT, just like amendments to Bills, the text proposed by the President on a Bill need not be subjected to other stages subjected to a Bill upon publication, - that is, publication, First Reading, Second Reading and Third Reading; (iii) THAT, any Committee or Member of the House is free to propose further amendments to the President’s recommendations; (iv) THAT, so long as such amendments have the effect of fully accommodating President’s Reservations, the voting threshold for the passage of such amendment or, indeed, the proposals made by the President, is a simple majority as contemplated by Article 122(1) of the Constitution. Any other proposed amendment, that does not fully accommodate the reservations or, indeed, an amendment whose effect is the total override of the President’s Reservations, including his proposed text, would attract the two-third voting threshold for it to pass; (v) THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.1(2), the determination of whether a proposed amendment by a Member or Committee to the President’s Reservations would have the effect of “fully accommodating” those reservations shall be made by the Speaker on a case by case basis; and, (vi) THAT, the absence of, at least, two-thirds majority at the time of putting the Question, does not in any way imply that the House is improperly constituted, since only a simple majority is required to pass the Bill a second time in a manner fully accommodating the President’s Reservations. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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