SECTION 77

(1) Members of Government shall reply to questions within 15 (fifteen) days. During a session, this period shall be reduced to 3 (three) days. Should documentary research work involved in answering questions take up too much time, the Member of Government concerned shall inform the author of the question accordingly through the President of the National Assembly. He shall then have another 3 (three) days to complete the documentary research, but during a session, the supplementary period shall be reduced to 2 (two) days. (2) If no answer has been given to a written question within the above mentioned periods, the President of the National Assembly shall ask the author of the question whether or not he wishes to convert his written question into an oral question. (3) Where the author refuses to change the question, the Member of Government concerned shall have not more than 2 (two) additional days to answer the written question. (4) Written questions and answers thereto as well as oral questions shall be recorded at the end of the verbatim reports of the debates of the National Assembly. PRESIDENCE DE LA REPUBLIQUE SECRETARIAT GENERAL SERVICE DU FICHIER LEGISLATIF ET REGLEMENTAIRE