(b) for the imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax by any local
authority or body for local purposes.
(4) If any question arises whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not, the decision of the Speaker of the
Provincial Assembly thereon shall be final.
(5) Every Money Bill presented to the Governor for assent shall bear a certificate under the
hand of the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly that it is a Money Bill and such certificate shall be
conclusive for all purposes and shall not be called in question.
1[116.
Governor’s assent to Bills.__ (1) When a Bill has been passed by the Provincial
Assembly, it shall be presented to the Governor for assent.
(2) When a Bill is presented to the Governor for assent, the Governor shall, within 2[ten] days,—
(a) assent to the Bill; or
(b) in the case of a Bill other than a Money Bill, return the Bill to the Provincial Assembly
with a message requesting that the Bill, or any specified provision thereof, be
reconsidered and that any amendment specified in the message be considered.
3[(3) When the Governor has returned a Bill to the Provincial Assembly, it shall be reconsidered
by the Provincial Assembly and, if it is again passed, with or without amendment, by the Provincial
Assembly, by the votes of the majority of the members of the Provincial Assembly present and
voting, it shall be again presented to the Governor and the Governor shall 4[give his assent within ten
days, failing which such assent shall be deemed to have been given].]
(4) When the Governor has assented 5[or is deemed to have assented] to a Bill, it shall become
law and be called an Act of Provincial Assembly.
(5) No Act of a Provincial Assembly, and no provision in any such Act, shall be invalid by reason
only that some recommendation, previous sanction or consent required by the Constitution was not
given if that Act was assented to in accordance with the Constitution.]
117. Bill not to lapse on prorogation, etc.__ (1) A Bill pending in a Provincial Assembly shall
not lapse by reason of the prorogation of the Assembly.
(2) A Bill pending in a Provincial Assembly shall lapse on the dissolution of the Assembly.
Financial Procedure
118. Provincial Consolidated Fund and Public Account.__ (1) All revenues received by the
Provincial Government, all loans raised by that Government, and all moneys received by it in
repayment of any loan, shall form part of a consolidated fund, to be known as the Provincial
Consolidated Fund.
1 Subs. by P. O. No. 14 of 1985, Article. 2 and Sch., for "Article 116"
2 Subs. by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), s. 38, for "thirty".
3 Subs. by the Constitution (Eighth Amdt.) Act, 1985 (18 of 1985), s. 15, for "clause (3)".
4 Subs. by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), s. 38, for "not withhold his assent thereform".
5 Ins. ibid.
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