VOTING
51.- 1. Save as otherwise provided in this Constitution, any question
proposed for decision in a House of Parliament shall be determined by a
majority of the votes of the members present and voting.
2. The President or other member presiding in the Senate and the Speaker or
other member presiding in the House shall not vote unless on any question the
votes are equally divided, in which case, except as otherwise provided in this
section, he shall have and exercise a casting vote:
Provided that in he case of the question of the final reading of a bill as a
referred to in section 47(2) of this Constitution a Speaker or other member
presiding in the House who is an elected member of the House shall have an
original vote but no casting vote.
3. A Speaker who is not an elected member of the House shall have neither an
original nor a casting vote and if, upon any question before the House when
such a Speaker is presiding, the votes of the members are equally divided, the
motion shall be lost.
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