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"Money Bill" means a public Bill which contains only provisions dealing with all or any of the following matiers, namely (a) the imposition, repeal. remission, alterati, m or regu- lation of taxation: (b) the imposition, for the payment of deht or othe: financial purposes. of charges on the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public funds or on moneys provided by the Legislature, or the variation or repeal of any such charges; (c) the grant of money for the services of the Govern- ment or the grant of money to any authority or person, or the variation or revocation of any such grant; (d) the appropriation, receipt, custody, investment. issue or audit of accounts of public money: (e) the raising or guarantee of any loan or the repay- ment thereof, or the establishment, alteration, ad- ministration or abolition of any sinking fund pro- vided in connexion with any such loan: (f) subordinate matters which are ancillary or inciden- tal to any of the foregoing matters. “sitting day" means any date on which Parliament meets; "statutory instrument" means any proclamation, rule, regu- lation, by-law, order, notice or other instrument having the force of law, made by the Officer Administering the Government or any other person or body under the authority of any Act of the Legislature of Rhodesia or of Southern Rhodesia for the time being in force ns st 93. (1) Immediately after any Bill to which this section applies has been given a final reading and passed by Parliament and before it is presented to the Officer Administering the Govern- ment for assent, the Speaker shall cause an authenticated copy of the Bill to be submitted to the Constitutional Council and the date on which it is sent to be recorded in the Journal of Parliament (2) The Council shall consider the Bill and within thirty days of such date, shall make a report addressed to the Officer Administering the Government and to the Speaker stating whether or not in the opinion of the Council any and if so, which provision of the Bill would, if enacted, be inconsistent with the Declaration of Rights. 62

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