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this Constitution within the meaning of section 116 No such Bill shall be presented to the Officer Adminisiering the Government for assent unless the Bill is accompanied by a certificate from the Speaker that at the final vote thereon it received the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the totai membership of Par. liament and unless the requirements of subsection (2) of section 117 have been complied with. General Saving 113. (i) Nothin' in this Chapter shall derogate from the general powers of the Legislature to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Rhodesia either generally or in relation to land, including Tribal Trust Land. (2) Nothing contained in any law passed in pursuance of the provisions of section 111 and nothing done in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or any such law shall be held to be inconsistent with the provisions of sections 76 and 77 1 CHAPTER X AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION General power to amend the Con- stitution 114. Subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Constitution, a law of the Legislature may amend, add to or repeal any of the provisions of this Constitution Provided that no Act of the Legislature shall be deemed to amend, add to or repeal any provision of this Constitution- (a) unless it does so in express terms, or (b) to the extent to which it makes provision for any matter mentioned in section 143 Con- stitutional Bills to require two-thirds majority. 115. No constitutional Bill sha!! bc deenied to be passed by Parliament unless at the final vote thereon in Parliament it receives the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of Parliament: Provided that the requirements of this section shall not apply to a Bill to the extent to which it makes provision for any matter mentioned in section 143 Con- stitutional Bills relating to spocially entrenched provisions 116. (1) For the purposes of this Constitution, all the pro. visions thereof enumerated in the Third Schedule shall be specially entrenched provisions of this Constitution together with any other provision which may hereafter be declared by any future amend. ment of this Constitution to be such a provision (2) Any constitutional Bill which contains any provision for amending, adding to or repealing any specially entrenched pro.

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