APPENDIX 1: PARLIAMENT ACT 1911, SECTION
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1 Powers of House of Lords as to Money Bills
(1) If a Money Bill, having been passed by the House
of Commons, and sent up to the House of Lords at least one month
before the end of the session, is not passed by the House of Lords
without amendment within one month after it is so sent up to that
House, the Bill shall, unless the House of Commons direct to the
contrary, be present to His Majesty and become an Act of Parliament
on the Royal Assent being signified, notwithstanding that the
House of Lords have not consented to the Bill.
(2) A Money Bill means a Public Bill which in the
opinion of the Speaker of the House of Commons contains only provisions
dealing with all or any of the following subjects, namely, the
imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, or regulation of taxation;
the imposition for the payment of debt or other financial purposes
of charges on the Consolidated Fund, [the National Loans Fund]
or on money provided by Parliament, or the variation or repeal
of any such charges; supply; the appropriation, receipt, custody,
issue or audit of accounts of public money; the raising or guarantee
of any loan or the repayment thereof; or subordinate matters incidental
to those subjects or any of them. In this subsection the expressions
"taxation", "public money", and "loan"
respectively do not include any taxation, money, or loan raised
by local authorities or bodies for local purposes.
(3) There shall be endorsed on every Money Bill when
it is sent up to the House of Lords and when it is presented to
His Majesty for assent the certificate of the Speaker of the House
of Commons signed by him that it is a Money Bill. Before giving
his certificate, the Speaker shall consult, if practicable, two
members to be appointed from the Chairmen's Panel at the beginning
of each Session by the Committee of Selection.
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