House of Assembly - Houses of Assembly

Houses of Assembly

• The Bahamas House of Assembly forms the lower house of the bicameral Parliament.
• The Barbados House of Assembly, the oldest House of Assembly in the Commonwealth forms the lower house of the bicameral Parliament.
• The Bermuda House of Assembly forms the lower house of the bicameral Parliament.
• Two of the Canadian provinces have unicameral legislatures named House of Assembly:
  • the Nova Scotia House of Assembly; and
  • the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
  • Also, the indigenous Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands call their legislative body a House of Assembly.
• Two of the Australian states have bicameral parliaments where the House of Assembly is the lower house:
  • the South Australian House of Assembly; and
  • the Tasmania House of Assembly.
• The House of Assembly of Dominica is the unicameral legislature in which the appointed members are called Senators.
• In Nigeria, the House of Assembly is the name given to each state legislature.
• In Trinidad and Tobago, the legislature of Tobago, which enjoys limited self-government, is the Tobago House of Assembly.
• The Turks and Caicos Islands House of Assembly is currently suspended.
• In the United States of America, House of Assembly was the name generally given to the legislatures of the original British colonies (such as that of Delaware), and the Assembly is the name given by many current US states to their bicameral legislatures.
• The House of Assembly of Zimbabwe was the sole parliamentary chamber following the abolition of the country's Senate in 1990, prior to its reinstatement in 2005.