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Article 191
In the matters referred to in Article 187, [numerals] 1 and 3, the text adopted by the
National Assembly is transmitted for adoption to the Senate by the President of the
National Assembly.
The Senate adopts the bill, within a time period that may not exceed thirty days,
either without amendment, or after having amended it.
If the Senate adopts the bill without amendment, the President of the Senate returns
the adopted text to the President of the National Assembly who transmits it within
forty-eight hours to the President of the Republic for promulgation.
If the Senate adopts the bill after having amended it, the President of the Senate
transmits it to the National Assembly for a new examination.
If the amendments proposed by the Senate are accepted by the National Assembly,
the President of the National Assembly transmits, within forty-eight hours, the
definitive text to the President of the Republic for promulgation.
When, following a disagreement between the two chambers, a bill or a proposal of
law could not be adopted, the President of the National Assembly and the President
of the Senate create a mixed paritary commission [commission mixte paritaire] given
the charge of proposing a common text on the whole or the part of the text
remaining in discussion, within 15 working days.
The text elaborated by the mixed paritary commission is submitted for approval to
the two chambers. No amendment is receivable. Each of the two chambers approves
it separately.
If the mixed commission does not achieve [parvient] the adoption of a common text,
or if this text is not adopted by one or the other chamber, the President of the
Republic may either demand the National Assembly to definitively decide or declare
the bill or the proposal of law lapsed [caduc].
The National Assembly adopts this text with a majority of two-thirds.
TITLE VII: OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN
THE EXECUTIVE [POWER] AND THE
LEGISLATIVE [POWER
• Initiation of general legislation
Article 192
The initiative of the laws belongs concurrently to the President of the Republic, to
the Government, to the National Assembly and to the Senate.
The bills of law are deliberated in the Council of Ministers.
Article 193
The agenda of the sessions of the National Assembly and of the Senate includes[,] on
priority and in the order that the Government has established[,] the discussion of the
bills of law presented by the Government and of the proposals of law presented by
the members of the National Assembly or of the Senate.
If a proposal of law could not be studied during two successive ordinary session, it
must be registered as a priority in the agenda of the following session.
Burundi 2005
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