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(35.) Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State : (36.) Matters in respect of which this Constitution makes provision until the Parliament otherwise provides: (37.) Matters referred to the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the Parliament or Parliaments of any State or States, but so that the law shall extend only to States by whose Parliaments the matter is referred, or which afterwards adopt the law: (38.) The exercise within the Commonwealth, at the request or with the concurrence of the Parliaments of all the States directly concerned, of any power which can at the establishment of this Constitution be exercised only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom or by the Federal Council of Australasia : (39.) Matters incidental to the execution of any power vested by this Constitution in the Parliament or in either House thereof, or in the Government of the Commonwealth, or in the Federal Judicature, or in any department or officer of the Commonwealth. Exclusive powers of the Parliament. 52. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have exclusive power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to— (1.) The seat of Government of the Commonwealth, and all places acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes: (2.) Matters relating to any department of the public service the control of which is by this Constitution transferred to the Executive Government of the Commonwealth : (3.) Other matters declared by this Constitution to be within the exclusive power of the Parliament. Powers of the Houses in respect of legislation. 53. Proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys, or imposing taxation, shall not originate in the Senate. But a proposed law shall not be taken to appropriate revenue or moneys, or to impose taxation, by reason only of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand or payment or appropriation of fees for licenses, or fees for services under the proposed law. The Senate may not amend proposed laws imposing taxation, or proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Government. The Senate may not amend any proposed law so as to increase any proposed charge or burden on the people. The Senate may at any stage return to the House of Eepresentatives any proposed law which the Senate may not amend, requesting, by message, the omission or amendment of any items or provisions therein. And the House of Eepresentatives may, if it thinks fit, make any of such omissions or amendments, with or without modifications. Except as provided in this section, the Senate shall have equal power with the House of Eepresentatives in respect of all proposed laws. Appropriation Bills. 54. The proposed law which appropriates revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Government shall deal only with such appropriation. Tax Bills. 55. Laws imposing taxation shall deal only with the imposition of taxation, and any provision therein dealing with any other matter shall be of no effect. Laws imposing taxation, except laws imposing duties of Customs or of excise, shall deal with one subject of taxation only ; but laws imposing duties of Customs shall deal with duties of Customs only, and laws imposing duties of excise shall deal with duties of excise only. Recommendation of money votes. 56- A vote, resolution, or proposed law for the appropriation of revenue or moneys shall not be passed unless the purpose of the appropriation has in the same session been recommended by message of the Governor-General to the House in which the proposal originated. Disagreement between the Houses. 57. If the House of Eepresentatives passes any proposed law, and the Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which the House of Eepresentatives will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the House of Eepresentatives, in the same or the next session, again passes the proposed law with or without any amendments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by the Senate, and the Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which the House of Eepresentatives will not agree, the Governor-General may dissolve the Senate and the House of Eepresentatives simultaneously. But such dissolution shall not take place within six months before the date of the expiry of the House of Eepresentatives by effluxion of time. If after such dissolution the House of Eepresentatives again passes the proposed law with or without any amendments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by the Senate, and the Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which the House of Eepresentatives will not agree, the Governor-General may convene a joint sitting of the members- of the Senate and of the House of Eepresentatives. The members present at the joint sitting may deliberate and shall vote together upon the proposed law as last proposed by the House of Eepresentatives, and upon amendments, if any,