- (iii) For the payment, issue, or withdrawal from the Cook Islands Government Account or from any other public fund or account of any money not charged thereon or any increase in the amount of such a payment, issue, or withdrawal; or
- (iv) For the composition or remission of any debt due to the Crown:
- (b) Proceed upon any motion (including any amendment to a motion) the effect of which, in the opinion of the person presiding, would be to make provision for any of those purposes:
- (c) Receive any petition that, in the opinion of the person presiding, requests that provision be made for any of those purposes.
Schedule Article 43: amended, on 4 August 1965, by section 2(1) of the Cook Islands Constitution Amendment Act 1965 (1965 No 2).
44 Assent to Bills by High Commissioner
(1) No Bill shall become law until it has been passed by the Legislative Assembly and has been assented to by the High Commissioner.
(2) Whenever any Bill which has been passed by the Legislative Assembly is presented to the High Commissioner for his assent, the High Commissioner shall, acting on the advice of the Premier, declare that he assents to the Bill or that he refuses his assent to the Bill:
Provided that the High Commissioner, acting in his discretion, may summon a meeting of the Executive Council, to be held within fourteen days after the Bill is presented to him for his assent, to consider amendments to the Bill proposed by him or to consider whether he should refuse his assent to the Bill.
(3) If at a meeting of the Executive Council thus summoned the Executive Council decides that the Bill should be returned to the Legislative Assembly for consideration of the amendments proposed or, as the case may be, that the High Commissioner should refuse his assent to the Bill, the High Commissioner shall, by Message,—
- (a) Return the Bill with the amendments proposed to the Legislative Assembly for consideration by the Assembly; or, as the case may be,
- (b) Return the Bill to the Legislative Assembly for reconsideration by the Assembly.
(4) If at a meeting of the Executive Council thus summoned the Executive Council decides that the Bill should not be returned to the Legislative Assembly for consideration of the amendments proposed or, as the case may be, that the High Commissioner should not refuse his assent to the Bill, he shall declare that he assents to the Bill.
(5) Where any Bill is returned to the Legislative Assembly under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subclause (3) of this Article, and the Bill is again passed by the Assembly with the amendments proposed, but with no other amendments, or in the form in which it was originally presented to the High Commissioner
