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60. (1) Bills appropriating revenue or moneys or imposing taxation shall originate only in the House of Assembly.

(2) A Bill shall not be deemed to appropriate revenue or moneys or to impose taxation by reason only of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties.

(3) The Senate may not amend any Bills so far as they impose taxation or appropriate revenue or moneys for the services of the Government.

(4) The Senate may not amend any Bills so as to increase any proposed charge or burden on the people.

61. Any Bill which appropriates revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Government shall deal only with such appropriation.

62. The House of Assembly shall not originate or pass any vote, resolution, address or Bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue or of any tax or impost to any purpose unless such appropriation has been recommended by message from the State President during the session in which such vote, resolution, address or Bill is proposed.

63. (1) If the House of Assembly in any session passes a Bill imposing taxation only or dealing with the appropriation of revenue or moneys for the services of the Government, and the Senate in the same session rejects or fails to pass it, the Bill shall, unless the House of Assembly otherwise directs, be presented to the State President for his assent and shall as soon as it has been assented to by the State President become an Act of Parliament and be taken to have been duly passed by the Senate and by the House of Assembly notwithstanding that the Senate has not consented to it.

(2) There shall be endorsed on every Bill which imposes taxation only or which deals with the appropriation of revenue or moneys for the services or the Government, when it is sent up to the Senate and when it is presented to the State President for his assent, the certificate of the Speaker of the House of Assembly signed by him that it is such a Bill.

(3) If the House of Assembly in two successive sessions (whether of the same Parliament or not) passes a Bill, other than a Bill referred to in sub-section (1), and the Senate in each of those sessions rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with amendments to which the House of Assembly will not agree, the Bill shall, unless the House of Assembly otherwise directs, be presented to the State President for his assent, and shall as soon as it has been assented to by the State President become an Act of Parliament and be taken to have been duly passed by the Senate and by the House of Assembly,