SECTION 98

(1) The two last disciplinary measures provided for under Section 96 above may only be taken, at the behest of the President of the National Assembly, by a majority of Members present through secret ballot. (2) Any Member of the National Assembly may be censured: 46 (a) who is called to order 5 (five) times or who, after a call to order recorded in the minutes, is again called to order during the same sitting or at consecutive sittings; PRESIDENCE DE LA REPUBLIQUE SECRETARIAT GENERAL SERVICE DU FICHIER LEGISLATIF ET REGLEMENTAIRE COPIE CERTIFIEE CONFORME (b) who causes disorder in open meeting; (c) who insults, defies or threatens one or more of his fellow Members. (3) Censure recorded in the minutes shall entail loss of the right to speak during the sitting at which it is incurred and during the next three sittings. It shall also entail suspension of the special parliamentary expense allowance for 2 (two) months. (4) Censure with temporary expulsion from the Premises of the National Assembly may be applied against any Member: (a)who ignores a simple censure or who has been censured twice; (b)who resorts to violence in an open meeting; (c)who is guilty of contempt of the National Assembly or its President; (d)who insults, defies or threatens the President of the Republic or Members of Government. (5) Censure with temporary expulsion shall entail prohibition from taking part in the proceedings of the National Assembly or to return to the precincts of the National Assembly until the end of the seventh sitting following that at which the disciplinary measure was taken. It shall also entail suspension of the special parliamentary expense allowance for 6 (six) months. (6) Where a Member of the National Assembly refuses to comply with the President's order to leave the plenary hall, the sitting shall be suspended. In such a case, as well as in the case where a Member is censured with temporary expulsion for the second time, the period of expulsion shall be 30 (thirty) days of sitting. 47