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imposing, altering or repealing any rate, tax, duty or impost 
were to originate in the Legislative Assembly. And by lvii, 
‘The Legislative Council may either accept or reject any 
Money Bill passed by the Legislative Assembly, but may 
not alter it, 
3. The following provision was made by clause xxxix for 
the case of disagreements between the Legislative Council 
and the Legislative Assembly :(— 
(1) If the Legislative Assembly passes any proposed 
law and the Legislative Council rejects or fails to pass it, 
or passes it with amendments to which the Legislative 
Assembly will not agree, and if the Legislative Assembly, 
in the next session, again passes the proposed law with or 
without any amendments which have been made, suggested, 
or agreed to by the Legislative Council, and the Legislative 
Council rejects, or fails to pass it, or passes it with amend- 
ments to which the Legislative Assembly will not agree, the 
Governor may during that session convene a joint sitting 
of the members of the Legislative Council and Legislative 
Assembly in the manner hereinafter provided, or may 
dissolve the Legislative Assembly, and may simultaneously 
dissolve both the Legislative Council and Legislative 
Assembly if the Legislative Council shall then be an elected 
Council.” But such dissolution shall not take place within 
six months before the date of the expiry of the Legislative 
Assembly by effluxion of time. 
(2) If “after such dissolution the Legislative Assembly 
again passes the proposed law, with or without any amend- 
ments, which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by 
the Legislative Council, and the Legislative Council rejects 
or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which 
the Legislative Assembly will not agree, the Governor may 
convene a joint sitting uf the members of the Legislative 
Council and of the Legislative Assembly, at which the 
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall preside. 
(3) The members present at any joint sitting convened 
ander either of the preceding subsections may deliberate and 
shall vote together upon the proposed law, as last proposed 
by the Legislative Assembly, and upon amendments, if any, 
which have been made therein by the one House of the 
Legislature and not agreed to by the other, and any such 
amendments which are affirmed by an absolute majority 
of the total number of the members of the Legislative Council