Section 10.
1(1)The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect in relation to any associated state (in this Schedule referred to as " the state ") with respect to the making by the legislature of the state (in this Schedule referred to as " the legislature ") of any such law as is mentioned in section 10(1) of this Act.
(2)In this Schedule " the Bill" means the Bill introduced in the legislature for the making of that law; any reference to the second reading of the Bill in the legislature, or in a House of the legislature, is a reference to the stage of the Bill in the legislature, or in that House, as the case may be, which, whether called second reading or by any other name, is (disregarding any minor differences) analogous to the second reading of a Bill in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; and any reference to the third reading of the Bill shall be construed in a corresponding way.
(3)In this Schedule " referendum " means a referendum on which all persons who, at the time when the referendum is held, would be entitled to vote at an election of members of the legislature (or, if the legislature consists of two Houses, would be entitled to vote at an election of members of the lower House), but no other persons, will be entitled to vote.
2Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule—
(a)there must be an interval of not less than ninety days between the introduction of the Bill and the beginning of the proceedings in the legislature on second reading of the Bill;
(b)on the third reading of the Bill in the legislature, the Bill must be supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the elected members of the legislature ;
(c)if approved on third reading in the legislature, the Bill must be submitted to a referendum and must not be submitted to the Governor of the state for his assent unless not less than two-thirds of the votes validly cast on that referendum are cast in support of the Bill.
3(1)If the legislature consists of two Houses (by whatever name called) the following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect instead of the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Schedule.
(2)There must be an interval of not less than ninety days between the introduction of the Bill in the lower House and the beginning of the proceedings on second reading of the Bill in that House.
(3)On the third reading of the Bill in that House, the Bill must be supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the elected members of that House.
(4)If the Bill is passed by the upper House with amendments, any agreement of the lower House to those amendments must be supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the elected members of the lower House.
(5)If the Bill, having been passed by the lower House, is passed by the upper House in the same Session either without amendment or with amendments which are agreed to by the lower House in accordance with the last preceding sub-paragraph, the Bill must be submitted to a referendum, and must not be submitted to the Governor of the state for his assent unless not less than two-thirds of the votes validly cast on that referendum are cast in support of the Bill.
(6)If in one Session the Bill is passed by the lower House in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of this paragraph, and either it is not passed by the upper House or it is passed by the upper House with amendments which are not agreed to by the lower House in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) of this paragraph, and in the next Session the Bill is again passed by the lower House in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of this paragraph, there must be an interval of not less than six months between the passage of the Bill by the lower House in the first of those Sessions and its passage by the lower House in the second of them.
(7)If, in the circumstances specified in the last preceding sub-paragraph, the Bill in the second of the two Sessions is sent to the upper House without amendment, but with suggestions for amending it, those suggested amendments must be supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the elected members of the lower House.
(8)Sub-paragraph (5) of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to the passage of the Bill in the second of those Sessions as it has effect in relation to the passage of the Bill in the Session in which it is first introduced.
(9)If in the second of those Sessions the Bill either is not passed by the upper House, or is passed by the upper House with amendments which are neither amendments suggested by the lower House in accordance with sub-paragraph (7) of this paragraph nor amendments which are agreed to by the lower House in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) of this paragraph, the Bill must be submitted to a referendum, and must not be submitted to the Governor of the state for his assent unless not less than two-thirds of the votes validly cast on that referendum are cast in support of the Bill.
(10)Except in the circumstances specified in the last preceding sub-paragraph, the Bill must not be submitted to a referendum or submitted to the Governor of the state for his assent unless it has been passed by both Houses of the legislature in accordance with the preceding provisions of this paragraph.
4(1)The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect where, before the introduction of the Bill, arrangements have been made between the Government of the state and the Government of a territory to which this paragraph applies whereby, immediately after the termination of the status of association of the state with the United Kingdom.—
(a)the state will enter into a federation or union or some other form of association with that territory (with or without other territories), and
(b)the Government resulting from that federation, union or other form of association, or the Government of that territory, will be responsible for the defence and external affairs of the state,
and the Bill refers to those arrangements and makes provision for giving effect to them on the part of the state.
(2)This paragraph applies to any territory which—
(a)lies between the equator and the 20th parallel of north latitude and between longitude 50 degrees west and longitude 90 degrees west, and
(b)at the time when the arrangements in question are made is a territory within the Commonwealth for whose government Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have no responsibility.
(3)In the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, the Bill may be submitted to the Governor for his assent without a referendum and accordingly paragraph 2(c) or (as the case may be) sub-paragraphs (5) and (9) of paragraph 3 of this Schedule shall not apply.