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41. Voting
(1) Save as otherwise provided in sections 19(8), 37(6) or 38(2), any question proposed for decision in the National Assembly shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting: Provided that questions of no confidence in the Government shall be determined by a majority of the votes of all the Representatives.
(2) Except in the case of a question of no confidence in the Government, a question shall not be regarded as having been validly determined by a vote in the National Assembly on occasions when the numbers of members voting are recorded unless not less than three-fifths of all the members, or such greater number of members as Parliament may prescribe, take part in the voting.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), a person presiding in the Assembly shall not vote unless on any question the votes of the members are equally divided, in which case he or she shall have and exercise a casting vote: Provided that in the case of the question of the final reading of any such bill as is referred to in section 38(2) he or she shall, if he or she is a Representative, have an original vote but no casting vote.
(4) A Speaker who was elected from among persons who were not members of the National Assembly shall have neither an original nor a casting vote and if, upon any question before the Assembly when such a Speaker is presiding, the votes of the members are equally divided, the motion shall be lost.