<P> In the United Kingdom, section 1 (1) of the Parliament Act 1911 provides that the House of Lords may not delay a money bill more than a month . It is at the discretion of the Speaker of the House of Commons to certify which bills are money bills, and his decision is final and is not subject to challenge . Section 1 (2) of the Act states: </P> <P> A Money Bill means a Public Bill which in the opinion of the Speaker of the House of Commons contains only provisions dealing with all or any of the following subjects, namely, the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, or regulation of taxation; the imposition for the payment of debt or other financial purposes of charges on the Consolidated Fund, the National Loans Fund or on money provided by Parliament, or the variation or repeal of any such charges; supply; the appropriation, receipt, custody, issue or audit of accounts of public money; the raising or guarantee of any loan or the repayment thereof; or subordinate matters incidental to those subjects or any of them . In this subsection the expressions "taxation," "public money," and "loan" respectively do not include any taxation, money, or loan raised by local authorities or bodies for local purposes . </P> <P> The Parliament Act 1911 was the product of the political crisis of 1909 . The People's Budget of 1909 proposed by the House of Commons was rejected by the House of Lords . A government whose budget (that is the Finance Bill) is rejected can only resign or dissolve Parliament, because without money it is impossible to govern . The rejection of the Finance Bill in 1909 by the Lords prompted the then British government to initiate steps to curtail the powers of the House of Lords in this regard . This is evident from the Preamble of the 1911 Act which states: "An Act to make provision with respect to the powers of the House of Lords in relation to those of the House of Commons ...". </P> <P> The reference to the National Loans Fund was inserted on 1 April 1968 by section 1 (5) of the National Loans Act 1968 . </P>

Who can decide whether a bill is a money bill or not