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Article 51 • Public or private sessions The National Assembly meets of plain right in two ordinary sittings per year. The first ordinary commences on March 1 and the second begins on October 1. The duration of each ordinary session is of four months. The Bureau of the National Assembly may however decide to prolong it by a period that shall not exceed fifteen days to permit the consideration of proposals of law of parliamentary origin which could not be taken up in the course of the Ordinary Session. • Length of legislative sessions The sittings of the National Assembly are public. The complete record of the debates in public sittings is published in the Journal Officiel. • Publication of deliberations However, the National Assembly can meet in closed sittings according to the modalities provided for by the Internal Regulations. The Law of Finance of the year is considered in the course of the second ordinary Session, called the Budgetary Session. • Finance bills constituteproject.org PDF generated: 28 Feb 2020, 00:44 Page 12Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010)