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Article 194
The Government has the right to propose amendments to the proposals of law
submitted by the members of the Parliament.
The National Assembly and the Senate have the right to deliberate, propose
amendments to the bills of law or reject the bills of law presented by the
Government.
However, the proposals and amendments formulated by the members of the
National Assembly or of the Senate are not receivable when their adoption would
have as consequence, either an important diminution of the public resources, or the
creation or the aggravation of an important public charge, unless those proposals or
amendments are accompanied by proposals of compensatory receipts.
When the National Assembly or the Senate has entrusted the examination of a bill or
of a proposal of law to a parliamentary commission, the Government may, after the
opening of the debates, oppose itself to the examination of any amendment that has
not been previously submitted to that commission.
If the Government demands it, the interpellated chamber pronounces itself by a sole
vote on all or part of the bill or of the proposal of law by retaining only the
amendments proposed or accepted by it [the Government].
Article 195
The Government may, for the execution of its program, demand from the Parliament
the authorization to take by decrees-law, for a limited time period, the measures that
are normally of the domain of the law.
These decrees-laws must be ratified by the Parliament in the course of the following
session.
The ratification is made by a sole vote on all of the text of the law.
In the absence of a law of ratification, they are struck down as lapsed [and] declared
[lapsed] by the Constitutional Court, the case arising.
Article 196
If it appears in the course of the legislative procedure, that a proposal of law or an
amendment is not of the domain of the law, the Government may oppose the
receivability.
In the case of disagreement between the Government and the Parliament, the
Constitutional Court, at the demand of the President of the Republic, the President
of the National Assembly or the President of the Senate, decides within a time period
of eight days.
• Approval of general legislation
• Constitutionality of legislation
Article 197
The President of the Republic promulgates the laws adopted by the Parliament
within a time period of thirty days counting from the day of their transmission, if he
does not formulate any demand of a second reading or [if he] has not referred [the
matter] to the Constitutional Court for unconstitutionality.
The request for a new examination may concern all or part of the law.
• Veto override procedure
Burundi 2005
After a second reading, the same text may not be promulgated except if it has been
voted by a majority of three-quarters of the Deputies and three-quarters of the
Senators.
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