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TITLE VI: OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER
1. OF THE PROVISIONS COMMON TO THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY AND TO THE SENATE
• Structure of legislative chamber(s)
Article 147
The legislative power is exercised by the Parliament, which includes two chambers:
the National Assembly and the Senate.
The members of the National Assembly bear the title of Deputy; those of the Senate
bear the title of Senator.
No one may belong at the same time to the National Assembly and to the Senate.
• Replacement of legislators
Article 148
An organic law establishes the conditions in which the Deputies and Senators are
replaced in the case of the vacancy of a seat.
Article 149
The mandate of the Deputies and the Senators has a national character. All
imperative mandates are null.
The vote of the Deputies and of the Senators is personal.
The internal regulations of the National Assembly and of the Senate may authorize
exceptionally the delegation of the vote. However, no one may receive the
delegation of more than one mandate.
• Immunity of legislators
Article 150
The Deputies and the Senators may not be prosecuted, investigated or arrested,
detained or judged for the opinions or the votes emitted in the course of the
sessions.
Except in the case of flagrante delicto, the Deputies and the Senators may not,
during the duration of the sessions, be prosecuted except with the authorization of
the Bureau of the National Assembly or of the Bureau of the Senate,
The Deputies and the Senators may not, out of session, be arrested except with the
authorization of the Bureau of the National Assembly for the Deputies or the Bureau
of the Senate for the Senators, except in the case of flagrante delicto, of prosecutions
already authorized or of definitive condemnation.
Article 151
The Deputies and the Senators are justiciable by the Supreme Court in accordance
with the law governing this last one and that concerning the code of the organization
and [that] of the judicial competence.
Burundi 2005
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