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MONEY VOTES; ROYAL ASSENT
APPROPRIATION AND TAX BILLS
53.- Bills for appropriating any Part of the Public Revenue, or for
imposing any Tax or Impost, shall originate in the House of Commons.
RECOMMENDATION OF MONEY VOTES
54.- It shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to adopt or
pass any Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill for the Appropriation of any Part
of the Public Revenue, or of any Tax or Impost, to any Purpose that has not
been first recommended to that House by Message of the Governor General in the
Session in which such Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill is proposed.
ROYAL ASSENT TO BILLS, ETC.
55.- Where a Bill passed by the Houses of the Parliament is
presented to the Governor General for the Queen's Assent, he shall declare,
according to his Discretion, but subject to the Provisions of this Act and to
Her Majesty's Instructions either that he assents thereto in the Queen's Name,
or that he withholds the Queen's Assent, or that he reserves the Bill for the
Signification of the Queen's Pleasure.
DISALLOWANCE BY ORDER IN COUNCIL OF ACT ASSENTED TO BY GOVERNOR
GENERAL
56.- Where the Governor General assents to a Bill in the Queen's
Name, he shall by the first convenient Opportunity send an authentic Copy of
the Act to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and if the
Queen in Council within Two Years after Receipt thereof by the Secretary of
State thinks fit to disallow the Act, such Disallowance (with a Certificate of
the Secretary of State of the Day on which the Act was received by him) being
signified by the Governor General, by Speech or Message to each of the Houses
of the Parliament or by Proclamation, shall annul the Act from and after the
Day of such Signification.
SIGNIFICATION OF QUEEN'S PLEASURE ON BILL RESERVED
57.- A Bill reserved for the Signification of the Queen's Pleasure
shall not have any Force unless and until, within Two Years from the Day on
which it was presented to the Governor General for the Queen's Assent, the
Governor General Signifies, by Speech or Message to each of the Houses of the
Parliament or by Proclamation, that it has received the Assent of the Queen in
Council.
An Entry of every such Speech, Message, or Proclamation shall be made in
the Hournal of each House, and a Duplicate thereof duly attested shall be
delivered to the proper Officer to be kept among the Records of Canada.
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