Yearly Session of Parliament.
6. There shall be a session of the Parliament once at least in every year66, so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Parliament in one session and its first sitting in the next session.
CANADA.—There shall be a session of the Parliament of Canada once at least in every year, so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Parliament in one session and its first sitting in the next session.—B.N.A. Act, 1867, s. 20.HISTORICAL NOTE.—This provision, which occurs in the Constitutions of all the Australian colonies, was contained, verbatim, in the Commonwealth Bill of 1891, and was adopted by the Convention of 1897-8, without debate or amendment.