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The Gambia (Constitution) Order in Council 1962.
Section 49
b) proceed upon any motion (including any amendment to
motion) the effect of which, in the opinion of the person presiding in the House or of the Attorney-General, is that provision should
be made for any of the purposes aforesaid; or
(c) receive any petition which, in the opinion of the person presid- ing in the House or of the Attorney-General, requests that provision be made for any of the purposes aforesaid.
(3) The Governor, in his discretion, may-
(a) send by message to the Speaker the draft of any Bill or motion which he considers should be introduced or proposed in the House; and
(b) in the same or a later message require that the Bill or motion shall be introduced or proposed not later than a date specified in the message;
and if that requirement is not complied with, the Bill or motion shall be deemed for all purposes to have been introduced or proposed în the House on the date so specified.
49.-(1) If the Governor considers that it is expedient in the Governor's interests of public order, public faith or good government (which reserved expressions shall, without prejudice to their generality, include the power. responsibility of the Gambia as a territory within the Commonwealth, and all matters pertaining to the creation or abolition of any public office or to the salary or other conditions of service of any public officer), that any Bill introduced, or any motion proposed, in the House should have effect, then, if the House fails to pass the Bill or to carry the motion within such time and in such form as the Governor thinks reasonable and expedient, the Governor may, at any time he thinks fit, and notwithstanding any provisions of this Order or of any Standing Orders of the House, declare that the Bill or motion shall have effect as if it had been passed or carried by the House either in the form in which it was introduced or proposed or with such amendments as the Governor thinks fit that have been moved or proposed in the House, including any committee thereof; and the Bill or motion shall be deemed thereupon to have been so passed or carried, and the provisions of this Order, and in particular the provisions relating to assent to Bills and disallowance of laws, shall have effect accordingly.
(2) The Governor shall not make any declaration under this section except in accordance with the following conditions:---
(a) the question whether the declaration should be made shall be submitted in writing by the Governor to the Executive Council, and if the Council advises that the declaration should be made, the Governor may make the declaration :
(b) if, when the question is submitted to it, the Council does not within such time as the Governor may think reasonable and expedient, advise that the declaration should be made, then-
(i) the Governor may submit the question to a Secretary of State and, if the Secretary of State so authorizes him, may make the declaration; or
(ii) the Governor may make the declaration without submitting the question to a Secretary of State if, in his judgment, urgent necessity requires him to make the declaration before he
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