Chapter 6: Provinces
Executive Council who is responsible for financial matters in the province may introduce a
money Bill in the legislature.
Money Bills
120.
(1) A Bill is a money Bill if it—
(a) � appropriates money;
(b) � imposes provincial taxes, levies, duties or surcharges;
(c) � abolishes or reduces, or grants exemptions from, any provincial taxes, levies,
duties or surcharges; or
(d) � authorises direct charges against a Provincial Revenue Fund.
(2) A money Bill may not deal with any other matter except—
(a) � a subordinate matter incidental to the appropriation of money;
(b) � the imposition, abolition or reduction of provincial taxes, levies, duties or
surcharges;
(c) � the granting of exemption from provincial taxes, levies, duties or surcharges; or
(d) � the authorisation of direct charges against a Provincial Revenue Fund.
(3) � A provincial Act must provide for a procedure by which the province’s legislature
may amend a money Bill.
[S. 120 substituted by s. 3 of the Constitution Seventh Amendment Act of 2001.]
Assent to Bills
121. � (1)
The Premier of a province must either assent to and sign a Bill passed by the
provincial legislature in terms of this Chapter or, if the Premier has reservations
about the constitutionality of the Bill, refer it back to the legislature for
reconsideration.
(2) If, after reconsideration, a Bill fully accommodates the Premier’s reservations, the
Premier must assent to and sign the Bill; if not, the Premier must either—
(a) � assent to and sign the Bill; or
(b) � refer it to the Constitutional Court for a decision on its constitutionality.
(3) � If the Constitutional Court decides that the Bill is constitutional, the Premier must
assent to and sign it.
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