Chapter 4: Parliament
(2)
(b) initiate or prepare legislation, except money Bills.
The National Assembly must provide for mechanisms—
(a) to ensure that all executive organs of state in the national sphere of
government are accountable to it; and
(b) to maintain oversight of—
(i) the exercise of national executive authority, including the
implementation of legislation; and
(ii) any organ of state.
Evidence or information before National Assembly
56.
The National Assembly or any of its committees may—
(a) summon any person to appear before it to give evidence on oath or
affirmation, or to produce documents;
(b) require any person or institution to report to it;
(c) compel, in terms of national legislation or the rules and orders, any person or
institution to comply with a summons or requirement in terms of paragraph
(a) or (b); and
(d) receive petitions, representations or submissions from any interested persons
or institutions.
Internal arrangements, proceedings and procedures of National
Assembly
57.
(1)
(2)
The National Assembly may—
(a) determine and control its internal arrangements, proceedings and procedures;
and
(b) make rules and orders concerning its business, with due regard to
representative and participatory democracy, accountability, transparency and
public involvement.
The rules and orders of the National Assembly must provide for—
(a) the establishment, composition, powers, functions, procedures and duration of
its committees;
(b) the participation in the proceedings of the Assembly and its committees of
minority parties represented in the Assembly, in a manner consistent with
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