Constitution Act 1902

The Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly shall, as there may be occasion, prepare and adopt respectively Standing Rules and Orders regulating—

the orderly conduct of such Council and Assembly respectively, and

the manner in which such Council and Assembly shall be presided over in case of the absence of the President or the Speaker, and

the mode in which such Council and Assembly shall confer, correspond, and communicate with each other relative to Votes or Bills passed by, or pending in, such Council and Assembly respectively, and

the manner in which Notices of Bills, Resolutions and other business intended to be submitted to such Council and Assembly respectively at any Session thereof may be published for general information, and

the proper passing, entitling, and numbering of the Bills to be introduced into and passed by the said Council and Assembly, and

the proper presentation of the same to the Governor for His Majesty’s Assent, and

any other matter that, by or under this Act, is required or permitted to be regulated by Standing Rules and Orders.

Such Rules and Orders shall by such Council and Assembly respectively be laid before the Governor, and being by him approved shall become binding and of force.