The Bahamas Independence Order 1973

Voting

58.—(1) Save as is otherwise provided in this Constitution, all questions proposed for decision in either House shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members thereof present and voting.

(2) The person presiding in either House shall not vote—

(a)unless on any question the votes are equally divided, in which case he shall have and exercise a casting vote; or

(b)except in the case of the final vote on a Bill for an Act of Parliament under Article 54 of this Constitution in which case he shall have an original vote.