Introduction and First Reading of Bills

“56. (1) Any member may move for leave to introduce a Bill for which he has given notice.

(2) A Bill may be presented to the Assembly on behalf of the Executive Council after notice without an order of the Assembly for its introduction.

(3) A Bill, whether presented in pursuance of an order of the Assembly after leave given or without such order, shall be handed to the Clerk by the member who gave notice of the Bill. The Clerk shall read aloud the title of the Bill, which without question put, shall be recorded in the Minutes of the Proceedings as having read a first time and ordered to be printed and circulated to each member.

(4) Copies of the Bill, as printed and published in the Gazette, shall be made available to each member.

(5) A Bill adopted by the Assembly shall not seek to abrogate, suspend, repeal, alter, override or be contrary to any written law of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago or impose any direct or indirect taxation whatsoever.”