Constitution

Belgium 1831 Constitution

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TITLE VII. Constitutional Revision

Article 131

The legislative power shall have right to declare that there is need for the revision of such constitutional provisions as it may designate.

Upon this declaration, the two houses are dissolved.

They shall both be convoked anew, conformably with article 71.

The houses shall act in common with the King, upon the points under revision.

In this case, the houses shall not sit unless two-thirds at least of the members which compose each of them are present, and no change shall be adopted which does not receive at least two-thirds of the votes.

Article 132

In choosing the chief of the State for the first time the first provision of article 80 may be dispensed with.