Constitution Section 182 — The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council

Part VI — THE STATES — Officers of the State Legislature

Constitutional

Summary

The Legislative Council of a state must select two of its own members to serve as Chairman and Deputy Chairman. Whenever either of these positions becomes empty, the Council must choose another member to fill that role.

Official Text

The Legislative Council of every State having such Council shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the Council to be respectively Chairman and Deputy Chairman thereof and, so often as the office of Chairman or Deputy Chairman becomes vacant, the Council shall choose another member to be Chairman or Deputy Chairman, as the case may be.