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 Xiv ADELAIDE AND VICINITY. Notes on the Constitution of South Australia {(/) Bills to alter or reduce any tax, rate, duty, or impost must originate in the House of Assembly, but can be amended by the Council in the ordinary manner. {(') The Council can make any amendments in any Bill received from the House of Assembly, so long as such amendments do not touch the parts of the Bill which raise money or appropriate revenue. {/) Any clause in a Bill from the House of Assembly, or series of clauses, the object of which is, or are, to raise money or warrant its expenditure, if the same can be segregated from the rest of the Bill, may be struck out by the Council by way of amendment. {£■) Any clause or series of clauses which merely alter or repeal a tax, rate, duty, or impost, and does or do not increase the tax, etc., can be dealt with by the Council by way of amendment. (A) If the Council desire to alter any clause which raises money by way of loan or taxation, or appropriates revenue, such alteration must be by way of suggestion. (?) If a suggestion is agreed to, the Bill is not taken out of committee, and the committee has leave to sit again on receipt of a reply from the House of Assembly. (y) Hitherto amendments and suggestions have not been made in the same Bill, but this is no reason why this should not be done, the message forwarding the suggestion informing the Assembly that, in addition to the suggestion, the Council reserves its right to forward at a later stage amendments to the House of Assembly in those parts of the Bill which the Council has a right to amend. If the Assembly adopts the suggestions, and introduces them in the Bill, the amendments would then be sent to the Assembly at a later stage, viz., upon the third reading in the Council. (k) When the House of Assembly receives a Bill in which the Council has made a suggestion to which the House of Assembly has agreed, the House of Assembly treats the Bill as if it were a new Bill ; but the Council treats the Bill as if the Bill had been amended by the House of Assembly, and proceeds in committee as if the Bill had been originally sent from the House of Assembly as amended. (/) If the House of Assembly does not agree to the suggestion made by the Council, and the Council refuses to give way, the Bill "shall be either assented to or rejected as originally passed by the House of Assembly." Section 40 of the Constitution Act This section provides, that " it shall not be lawful for either House of the said Parliament to pass any vote, resolution, or Bill for the appropriation of any part of the revenue, or of any tax, rate, duty, or impost, for any purpose which shall not have been first recommended by the Governor to the .said Hou.se of Assembly during the session in which such vote, resolution, or Bill shall be passed."