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'''House of Assembly''' is a name given to the [[legislature]] or [[lower house]] of a [[bicameral]] legislature, in some countries, often at [[subnational]] level.
Historically, the House of Assembly in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[crown colonies]] superseded the (usually unelected) [[Legislative Council]] as the [[colonial]] legislature, as the colony gained more internal [[responsible government]], in some instances becoming the lower house - in [[Bermuda]], it forms the lower house of the [[bicameral]] parliament - see [[House of Assembly of Bermuda]].
== Other examples ==
* [[Barbados]] has the oldest ''House of Assembly'' in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] - see [[Barbados House of Assembly]].
* The [[Canadian province]]s of [[Nova Scotia]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador]] call their unicameral provincial legislatures the ''House of Assembly'' as a result of the provinces' former status as British crown colonies - see [[Nova Scotia House of Assembly]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly]]. The Indigenous Peoples of [[Haida|Haida Gwaii]] also call their legislative body a House of Assembly.
* In the [[States and territories of Australia|Australian states]] of [[South Australia]] and [[Tasmania]], the House of Assembly is the lower house - see [[South Australian House of Assembly]] and [[Tasmania House of Assembly]].
* In [[South Africa]], the House of Assembly, known in [[Afrikaans]] as the ''Volksraad'', was the lower house of the whites-only [[parliament]] until [[1981]], when the [[Senate of South Africa|Senate]] was abolished. Following a new [[Constitution]] in [[1984]], it became one of three Houses of the [[Tricameral Parliament]]. Following the end of [[apartheid]] and the introduction of a new Constitution in [[1994]], it was replaced by a [[National Assembly]].
* In [[Dominica]], the House of Assembly is the unicameral legislature, in which the appointed members are called Senators - see [[House of Assembly of Dominica]].
* In [[Nigeria]], the House of Assembly is the name given to each state legislature.
* In [[Zimbabwe]], the House of Assembly was the sole parliamentary chamber following the abolition of the country's Senate in [[1990]], prior to its reinstatement in [[2005]] - see [[House of Assembly of Zimbabwe]].
* In [[Trinidad and Tobago]], the House of Assembly is the legislature of [[Tobago]], which enjoys limited self-government - see [[Tobago House of Assembly]].
* In [[Papua New Guinea]], the [[unicameral]] [[National Parliament of Papua New Guinea|National Parliament]] was known as the [[House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea|House of Assembly]] before independence.
==See also==
*[[Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Legislatures]]
[[pt:House of Assembly]]