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(1) A bill alters any of the following
Acts, namely: (a) Fijian Affairs Act; (b) Fijian Development
Fund Act; (c) Native Lands Act; (d) Native Land Trust
Act; (e) Rotuman Act; (f) Rotuman Lands Act; (g) Banaban
Lands Act; or (h) Banaban Settlement Act: including
a Bill prepared in consequence of the enactment of this
Constitution: (i) must be expressed as a Bill for an
Act to alter the Act concerned; (j) must not be presented
for the President's assent unless it has been read 3
times in each House and motions for the second and third
readings are carried in each House; and (k) is declined
not to have been passed by the Senate unless at its
third reading in that House it is supported by the votes
of at least 9 of the 14 members of the Senate appointed
under paragraph 64 (1)(a). (2) A Bill that alters the
Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act: (a) must be expressed
as a Bill for an Act to alter that Act; and (b) must
not be presented for the President's assent unless:
(i) it has been read 3 times in each House and motions
for the second and third readings are carried in each
House; and (ii) at its third reading it is supported
by the votes of at least two-thirds of the members of
each House and, in the case of the Senate, by the votes
of at least 9 or the 14 members of the Senate appointed
under paragraph 64 (1)(a). (3) The President must not
assent to a Bill referred to in this section unless
it is accompanied by a certificate of the Secretary-General
to Parliament certifying that, in relation to the particular
House, the approval required by this section has been
given.
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