Legal provisions for optional referendums at national level

Referenda Act, 1973 (last amended in 2012)

3. (1) Persons entitled to vote in a referendum under this Act will be called upon to declare:

(a) whether they approve proposals set out in a resolution passed for that purpose by the House and published in the Gazette; or

(b) whether  they  agree  that  a  provision  of  law  should  be abrogated in accordance with the provisions of Part V of this Act, as the case may be.

(2) Persons   entitled   to   vote   in   a   referendum   under   the Constitution will be called upon to declare whether they approve a bill for an Act of Parliament submitted to them for the purposes of article 66(3) of the Constitution.