Section 126, REPEALED THE CONSTITUTION OF SIERRA LEONE 1978-12

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Section no taxation shall be imposed or altered except by or under an Act of (2) Save as provided by subsections (3) and (4) Parliament shall not confer upon any other person, or authority power to impose or to alter (otherwise than by reduction) any taxation. (3) Parliament may make provision under which the President or a Minister may by order Provide that, on or after the publication of a Bill (being a Bill approved by the President) that it is proposed to introduce into Parliament providing for the imposition or alteration of taxation, such provisions of the Bill as may be specified in the order shall, until the Bill becomes law, have the force of law for such period and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by Parliament. Provided that any such order shall, unless sooner revoked, cease to have effect— i. if the Bill to which it relates is not passed within such period from the date of its first reading in Parliament as may be prescribed by Parliament; ii. if, after the introduction of the Bill to which it relates, Parliament is prorogued or dissolved; iii. if, after the passage of the Bill to which it relates, the President refuses his assent thereto; or iv. at the expiration of a period of four months from the date it came into operation or such longer period from that date as may be specified in any resolution passed by Parliament after the Bill to which it relates has been introduced. (4) Parliament may confer upon any authority established by law for the purpose of local government power to impose taxation within the area for which that authority is established and to alter taxation so imposed. (5) Where the Appropriation Act in respect of a financial year has not come into force at the expiration of six months from the commencement of that financial year, the operation of any law relating to the collection or recovery of any tax upon any income or profits or any duty of customs or excise shall he suspended until that Act comes into force: Provided that— i. in any financial year in which Parliament stands dissolved at the commencement of that year the period of six months shall begin from the day upon which Parliament first sits following that dissolution instead of from the commencement of the financial year; ii. the provisions of this subsection shall not apply in any financial year in which Parliament is dissolved after the laying of estimates in accordance with Section 128 and before the Appropriation Bill relating to those estimates is passed by Parliament.