The Legislative Council of New Cambria is the upper house of the bicameral General Assembly of New Cambria, commonly called the Parliament. The lower house is the House of Assembly. Unlike the House of Assembly, the Senate is not directly elected, but rather consists of 40 members, called MLCs, who are indirectly elected and appointed by various methods. The Legislative Council is modeled after the British House of Lords, and is intended to play a deliberative and revising role in shaping legislation. Thus, its powers are much weaker than those of the House of Assembly, and it can only delay laws with which it disagrees, rather than veto them outright.