New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION ACT 1902 - SECT 15

15 Standing Rules and Orders to be laid before Governor

(1) The Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly shall, as there may be occasion, prepare and adopt respectively Standing Rules and Orders regulating--

(a) the orderly conduct of such Council and Assembly respectively, and

(b) the manner in which such Council and Assembly shall be presided over in case of the absence of the President or the Speaker, and

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

(d) the manner in which Notices of Bills, Resolutions and other business intended to be submitted to such Council and Assembly respectively at any Session thereof may be published for general information, and

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

(f) the proper presentation of the same to the Governor for His Majesty's Assent, and

(g) any other matter that, by or under this Act, is required or permitted to be regulated by Standing Rules and Orders.

(2) Such Rules and Orders shall by such Council and Assembly respectively be laid before the Governor, and being by him approved shall become binding and of force.