South Australian Current Acts

CONSTITUTION ACT 1934 - SECT 55

55—Standing rules and orders

        (1)         The Legislative Council and House of Assembly from time to time as there shall be occasion, shall prepare and adopt such Standing Rules and Orders as appear to the Council and Assembly respectively best adapted for—

            (a)         the orderly conduct of the Council and Assembly respectively;

            (b)         the regulation of the proceedings thereof and the dispatch of business therein;

            (c)         the manner in which the Council and Assembly shall be presided over in case of the absence of the President or Speaker;

            (d)         the mode in which the Council and Assembly shall confer, correspond, and communicate with each other relative to votes or Bills passed by or pending in the Council and Assembly respectively;

            (e)         the proper passing, intituling, and numbering of the Bills to be introduced into and passed by the Council and Assembly;

            (f)         the proper presentation of the same to the Governor for the time being, for assent.

        (2)         All such rules and orders shall, by the Council and Assembly respectively, be laid before the Governor, and, being approved by the Governor, shall become binding and of force.