← State legislature: officers, procedure and money mattersAssembly Speaker and Deputy SpeakerFind a topicSearchThe Assembly chooses its Speaker and Deputy Speaker from its membersLoss of Assembly membership normally vacates the presiding officeSpeaker and Deputy Speaker address resignations to each otherThe Assembly may remove its presiding officer by the specified majorityThe Speaker continues through dissolution until the next Assembly first meetsSpeaker vacancies have a constitutional substitution sequenceAbsence from a sitting uses a different substitution sequenceA presiding officer cannot chair consideration of their own removal
