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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 713, 12 February 1853, Page 1 (Supplement)

Election to take place on Vacancies. LI. When and so often as a Vacancy shall occur as aforesaid in any Seat in the said House of Representatives, it shall and may be lawful for such House to address the Governor, stating the Existence of such Vacancy and the Cause thereof, and the Governor, upon receiving such Address, shall cause a Writ to be issued for supplying such Vacancy. Standing Rides and Orders to he made. LTI. The said Legislative Council and House of Representatives at the Fitst Sitting of each respectively, and from Time to Time afterwards as there shall he Occasion, shall prepare and adopt such Standing Rules and Orders as shall appear to the said Council and House of Representatives respectively best adapted for the orderly Conduct of the Business of such Council and House respectively, and for the Manner in which such Council and House lespectively shall be presided over in case of the Absence of the Speaker, and for the Mode in which such Council and House shall confer, correspond, and communicate with each other relative to Votes or Bills passed by or pending in such Council and House respectively, and for the Manner in which Notices of Bills, Resolutions, and other Business intended to he submitted to such Council and House respectively at any Session thereof may be published in the Government Gazette or otherwise for g> neral Information for some convenient "pace or Time before the Meeting of such Council and House respectively, and for the proper framing, entitling, and numbering of the Bills to be in • troduced into and passed by the said Council and House of Representatives, all of which Rules and Orders shall be such Council and House of respectively be laid before tie Governor, and being by him approved shall become binding and of force, but subject nevertheless to the Confirmation or Disallowance of Her Majesty in manner herein-alter provided respecting the Acts to be "made by the Governor with the Advice and Consent of the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives; provided that no such Rule or Order shall be of force to subject any Person, not being a Member or Officer of the Council or House to which it relates, to any Pain, Penalty, or Forfeiture. Rower of General A ssemfdy to make Laws. LIH. It shall be competent to the said General Assembly (except and subject as herein-after mentioned) to make Laws for the Peace, Order and good Government of New Zealand , provided that no such Laws be repugnant to the Law of England ; and the Laws so to be made by the said General Assembly shall control and supersede any Laws or Ordinances in anywise repugnant thereio which may have been made or ordained prior thereto by any Provincial Council; and any Law or Ordinance made or ordained by any Provincial Council in pursuance of the Authority hereby conferred upon it, and on any Subject whereon under such Authority as aforesaid it is entitled to legislate, shall, so far as the same is repugnant to or inconsistent with any Act passed by the General Assembly, be null and void. As to the Appropriation and Issue of Money, LIV. It shall not be lawful for the House of Representatives, or the Legislative Council to pass, or for the Governor to assent to any Bill appropriating to the Public Service any Sum of Money from or out of Her Majesty’s Revenue within New Zealand, unless the Governor on Her Majesty’s Behalfshall first have recommended to the House of Representatives to make Provision for the specific Public Service towards which such Money is tube appropriated, and (save as herein otherwise provided) no Part of Her Majesty’s Revenue within New Zealand shall be issued except in pursuance of Warrants under the Hand of the Governor directed to the public Treasurer thereof. Governor may transmit Drafts of Laws to cither House. LV. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor to transmit by Message to cither the said Legislative Council or the said Mouse of Representatives for their Consideration the Drafts of any Laws which it may appear to him desirable to introduce and all such Drafts shall be taken into consideration in such conve.,ient Manner as shall in and by the Rules and Orders aforesaid be in that behalf provided.