Certificate of compliance.

(1) The votes on the second and third readings referred to in articles 260 and 261 of this Constitution shall be separated by at least fourteen sitting days of Parliament. (2) A bill for the amendment of this Constitution which has been passed in accordance with this Chapter shall be assented to by the President only if— (a) it is accompanied by a certificate of the Speaker that the provisions of this Chapter have been complied with in relation to it; and (b) in the case of a bill to amend a provision to which article 260 or 261 of this Constitution applies, it is accompanied by a certificate of the Electoral Commission that the amendment has been approved at a referendum or, as the case may be, ratified by the district councils in accordance with this Chapter. (3) Where the provisions of clause (2) of this article are complied with in the case of a bill to which article 260 or 261 of this Constitution applies, the President shall not refuse to assent to the bill. (4) Where in the case of a bill to which clause (3) of this article applies the President— (a) refuses to assent to the bill; or (b) fails to assent to the bill within thirty days after the bill is submitted, the President shall be taken to have assented to the bill, and the Speaker shall cause a copy of the bill to be laid before Parliament and the bill shall become law without the assent of the President. Chapter Nineteen Transitional Provisions.