Volume 123, Issue 102A
Royal Gazette
1 October 2549
Section8.In the case that any Member of the National Legislative Assembly commits an act which impairs the honour of being a Member of the National Legislative Assembly or behaves in such a way that obstructs the performance of duties by a Member of the National Legislative Assembly, Members of the National Legislative Assembly numbering not less than twenty have the right to subscribe a request to the President of the National Legislative Assembly for removing him from his membership.
The resolution of the National Legislative Assembly to remove a Member from his membership in accordance with paragraph 1 must obtain a vote of not less than two thirds of the total number of the Members existing on the voting day.
Section9.At meetings of the National Legislative Assembly, the Members in attendance must not be less than one half of the total number of the Members in order that a quorum be met.
The National Legislative Assembly has the power to enact regulations relating to the selection of and the performance of duties by the President of the Assembly, the Vice Presidents of the Assembly, and members of committees, the procedure for the conduct of meetings, the introduction and consideration of bills, the introduction of motions, the conduct of debates, the passage of resolutions, the conduct of interpellation, the maintenance of rule and order, and other affairs for the execution of its powers and duties.
Section10.The Monarch enacts acts by and with the advice and consent of the National Legislative Assembly.
Subject to section 30, bills shall only be introduced by Members of the National Legislative Assembly numbering not less than twenty-five jointly, or the Council of Ministers. However, money bills shall only be introduced by the Council of Ministers.
A money bill according to paragraph 2 refers to a bill which deals with all or any of the following subjects, namely, the establishment, repeal, reduction, alteration, modification, remission, or regulation of a tax or duty, the appropriation of, receipt of, custody of, spending of, transfer of, or creation of an obligation binding state money, the reduction of state revenue, or the raising, guarantee, or repayment of a loan, or [refers to] a bill on currency.
In the case of doubt as to whether or not a bill introduced by Members of the National Legislative Assembly is a money bill, it shall be the power of the President of the National Legislative Assembly to give a ruling.
