SOUTH AFRICAN SENATE BILL
Government Reply To Opposition (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 3. The Minister of the Interior, Mr Eben Donges, yesterday gave notice in the Assembly of an amendment to Xhe Senate Bill disposing of the need for a joint session in cases where the Senate rejects a bill passed by the Assembly. The Opposition fears the Government Bin to enlarge the Senate as a means of removing coloured voters from the common electoral roll, will mean the entrenchment of the Nationalists. in the Senate, for the next five years. Mr Donges’s amendment is the Government’s reply to the Opposition argument. It provides that a bill rejected by the Senate may be submitted to the Queen through the Governor-General for assent, and become law notwithstanding the fact that the Senate has not consented to it. The existing provision of the constitution is that where the Senate rejects a bill, a joint sitting of both houses may be convened and the bill if passed by a joint session will be deemed to have been passed by both houses.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27676, 4 June 1955, Page 7
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