A money bill is a bill that solely concerns taxation or government spending, as opposed to changes in public law. In Westminster System parliaments, an Act of Parliament is a part of the law passed by the Parliament. ... A tax is an involuntary fee paid by individuals or businesses to a government. ...

Examples by country

In some instances of the Westminster system, the upper house is not allowed to block money bills. The Westminster System is a democratic system of government modelled after that of the United Kingdom system of government and used in Westminster, the seat of government, hence its name. ... An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. ...

• In the United Kingdom, the Parliament Act provides that the House of Lords may not delay a money bill more than a month.

• In the Republic of Ireland, the Senate may not delay a money bill more than 21 days.

• In Australia, the Senate may not originate or amend a money bill, though it may refuse to pass it (which leads to a deadlock as happened in 1975).

In the United Kingdom, Parliament Act refers to each of two Acts of Parliament, passed in 1911 and 1949 respectively. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... The Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. ... Seanad Éireann (English: Senate of Ireland), the Irish Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas: the parliament of the Republic of Ireland1. ...

Conventions

It is often a constitutional convention that the upper house may not block Supply. Alternative meaning: Constitutional convention A Constitutional Convention is a gathering of persons for the purpose of drawing up a constitution, or planning to modify one. ... Loss of Supply occurs where a government in a parliamentary democracy is by parliamentary vote denied a supply of treasury or exchequer funds, by whichever house or houses of parliament is constitutionally entitled to grant and deny supply. ...

There is often another requirement that non-money bill type clauses may not be attached to a money bill.

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