Constitution Section 175 — Right of Governor to address and send messages to the House or Houses

Part VI — THE STATES — General

Constitutional

Summary

The Governor can speak to the Legislative Assembly, or if the state has a Legislative Council, to either House or both Houses together, and can ask members to attend for that purpose. The Governor can also send messages to the House or Houses about a bill that is currently being considered or about any other matter. The House that receives such a message must promptly consider whatever the message asks it to look into.

Official Text

(1) The Governor may address the Legislative Assembly or, in the case of a State having a Legislative Council, either House of the Legislature of the State, or both Houses assembled together, and may for that purpose require the attendance of members.

(2) The Governor may send messages to the House or Houses of the Legislature of the State, whether with respect to a Bill then pending in the Legislature or otherwise, and a House to which any message is so sent shall with all convenient despatch consider any matter required by the message to be taken into consideration.