Constitution Section 93 — The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People

Part V — THE UNION — Officers of Parliament

Constitutional

Summary

The House of the People must elect two of its members to serve as Speaker and Deputy Speaker as soon as possible after it is formed. Whenever the position of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes empty, the House must elect another member to fill that position.

Official Text

The House of the People shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the House to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the House shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.