Legislative Council abolition or creation requires state assembly supermajority resolution and enabling parliamentary legislation. Parliament may, by law, abolish or create a State Legislative Council where the State Legislative Assembly first passes a resolution by a majority of its total membership and by a supermajority of members present and voting; any such law must contain necessary provisions to amend the Constitution to give effect to the change and may include supplemental, incidental and consequential provisions, and is specified as not being subject to the ordinary constitutional amendment procedure.
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Legislative Council abolition or creation requires state assembly supermajority resolution and enabling parliamentary legislation.
Parliament may, by law, abolish or create a State Legislative Council where the State Legislative Assembly first passes a resolution by a majority of its total membership and by a supermajority of members present and voting; any such law must contain necessary provisions to amend the Constitution to give effect to the change and may include supplemental, incidental and consequential provisions, and is specified as not being subject to the ordinary constitutional amendment procedure.
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