Right of Governor to Address and Send Messages to the House or Houses
(1) The Governor may address the Legislative Assembly or, in the case of a State having a Legislative Council, either House of the Legislature of the State, or both Houses assembled together, and may for that purpose require the attendance of members. (2) The Governor may send messages to the House or Houses of the Legislature of the State, whether with respect to a Bill then pending in the Legislature or otherwise, and a House to which any message is so sent shall with all convenient despatch consider any matter required by the message to be taken into consideration.
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This gives the Governor the same kind of formal communication channel with the State Legislature that the President has with Parliament, used alongside the more specific annual address requirement in the following Article.
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Is this different from the Governor's annual address to the Assembly?
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