Ordinance power: temporary presidential legislation subject to parliamentary laying, timed cessation, withdrawal and competence limits. Power to promulgate Ordinances authorises the President, when Parliament is not in session and immediate action is necessary, to issue Ordinances with the force of Acts; such Ordinances must be laid before both Houses on reassembly, may be withdrawn by the President, cease to operate after the prescribed post-reassembly period or upon both Houses' disapproval, and are void insofar as they exceed Parliament's constitutional competence.