Constitution Section 178 — The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

Part VI — THE STATES — Officers of the State Legislature

Constitutional

Summary

Every state's Legislative Assembly must elect two of its own members to serve as Speaker and Deputy Speaker as soon as possible. Whenever the position of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes empty, the Assembly must elect another member to fill that role.

Official Text

Every Legislative Assembly of a State shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the Assembly to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the Assembly shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.