text: **PART II**
  **General Provisions Relating to Procedure in National Assembly (ss 71-76)**
  
  **71. Oaths to be taken by Speaker and Members**
  
  The Speaker, before assuming the duties of his or her office, and every Member 
  of the National Assembly before taking his or her seat therein, shall take and subscribe 
  before the Assembly the oath of allegiance. 
  **72. Presiding in Assembly**
  
  There shall preside at any sitting of the National Assembly- 
  
  (a) 
  (b) 
  (c) 
  
  the Speaker; 
  in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker; or 
  in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, such Member of the 
  Assembly (not being the President or Vice-President or a Minister or Assistant 
  Minister) as the Assembly may elect for that sitting. 
  
  **73. Quorum in Assembly**
  
  If objection is taken by any Member of the National Assembly present that there 
  
  are present in the Assembly (besides the person presiding) less than one third of the 
  Members of the Assembly and, after such interval as may be prescribed in the rules of 
  procedure of the Assembly, the person presiding ascertains that the number of Members 
  present is less than one third, he or she shall thereupon adjourn the Assembly. 
  **74. Voting in Assembly**