528 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III 
Imperial Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 55, that all Bills for appropriating 
any part of the revenue of Victoria, and for imposing any 
duty, rate, tax, rent, return, or impost, shall originate in 
the Assembly, and may be rejected but not altered by the 
Legislative Council. By s. 30 of the amending Victorian 
Act of 1903, No. 1864, it is provided as follows :— 
(1) A Bill shall not be taken to be a Bill for appropriating 
any part of the revenue of Victoria, or for imposing any 
duty, rate, tax, rent, return, or impost, by reason only of its 
containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of 
fines or other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand, or 
payment, or appropriation of fees for licences, or fees for 
services under such Bill. 
(2) The Council may once at each of the undermentioned 
stages of a Bill which the Council cannot alter return such 
Bill to the Assembly suggesting by message the omission 
or amendment of any items or provisions therein. And the 
Assembly may, if it thinks fit, make any of such omissions or 
amendments with or without modifications. Provided that 
the Council may not suggest any omission or amendment 
the effect of which will be to increase any proposed charge 
or burden on the people. 
(3) The stages of a Bill at which the Council may return 
the Bill with a message as aforesaid shall be— 
(@) The consideration of the Bill in Committee ; 
(b) The consideration of the report of the Committee ; and 
(¢) The consideration of the question that the Bill be read 
a third time. 
3. The following provision is made for disagreements 
between the two Houses with regard to matters of finance or 
general legislation by s. 31 of the Act of 1903, No. 1864 :— 
(1) If the Assembly passes any Bill and the Council rejects 
or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which 
the Assembly will not agree, and, if not later than six 
months before the date of the expiry of the Assembly by 
effluxion of time, the Assembly is dissolved by the Governor 
by a proclamation declaring such dissolution to be granted 
in consequence of the disagreement between the two Houses 
as to such Bill, and the Assembly again passes the Bill with 
or without any amendments which have been made, sug- 
gested, or agreed to by the Council, and the Council rejects 
or fails to pass it or passes it with amendments to which the 
Assembly will not agree, the Governor at any time, not 
being less than nine months nor more than twelve months