60—Interpretation of sections 60– 63
(1) In this Division,
the expressions "revenue", "public money",
"taxation", and "loan" respectively do not include any revenue, money,
taxation, or loan raised by local authorities or bodies for local purposes.
(2) For the purposes
of this Division a Bill, or a clause of a Bill, shall not be taken to
appropriate revenue or public money, or to deal with taxation, by reason only
of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or
other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand or payment or appropriation of
fees for licences or fees for services under the proposed Act.
(3) For the purposes
of this Division, a Bill, or a clause of a Bill, shall be taken to deal with
taxation if it provides for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, or
regulation of taxation.
(4) In this
Division—
"appropriation Bill" means a Bill for appropriating revenue or other
public money;
"money Bill" means a Bill for appropriating revenue or other public money, or
for dealing with taxation, or for raising or guaranteeing any loan, or for
providing for the repayment of any loan;
"money clause" means a clause of a Bill, which clause appropriates revenue or
other public money, or deals with taxation, or provides for raising or
guaranteeing any loan or for the repayment of any loan;
"previously authorised purpose" means—
(a) a
purpose which has been previously authorised by Act of Parliament or by
resolution passed by both Houses of Parliament; or
(b) a
purpose for which any provision has been made in the votes of the Committee of
Supply whereon an appropriation Bill previously passed was founded.