Part 30 (1/2)
ARTICLE 66
The National Cabinet, as well as every member of the National Council, is ent.i.tled to make proposals in the National Council.
The National Council regulates its order of business through rules of procedure.
The plenary sittings of the National Council are public. In accordance with the rules of procedure the public may be excluded during the discussion of particular subjects.
Decisions are taken by a majority of those present.
ARTICLE 67
The National Council shall be kept informed by the National Departments of the conduct of national business. At deliberations on important subjects the appropriate committees of the National Council shall be summoned by the National Departments.
_SECTION V_
NATIONAL LEGISLATION
ARTICLE 68
Bills are introduced by the National Cabinet or by members of the National a.s.sembly.
National laws are enacted by the National a.s.sembly.
ARTICLE 69
The introduction of bills by the National Cabinet requires the concurrence of the National Council. If an agreement between the National Cabinet and the National Council is not reached, the National Cabinet may nevertheless introduce the bill, but must state the dissent of the National Council.
If the National Council resolves upon a bill to which the National Cabinet does not a.s.sent, the latter must introduce the bill in the National a.s.sembly together with a statement of its att.i.tude.
ARTICLE 70
The National President shall compile the laws which have been const.i.tutionally enacted and within one month publish them in the National Bulletin of Laws.
ARTICLE 71
National laws go into effect, unless otherwise specified, on the fourteenth day following the date of their publication in the National Bulletin of Laws at the national capital.
ARTICLE 72
The promulgation of a national law may be deferred for two months, if one-third of the National a.s.sembly so demands. Laws which the National a.s.sembly and the National Council declare to be urgent may be promulgated by the National President regardless of this demand.
ARTICLE 73