There were two chambers: Joint sessions of the Parliament, for solemn occasions like the "speech from the crown" (discorso della corona), were held at the Palazzo Carignano, for space reasons.

The two chambers were theoretically equal in power (the so-called "Perfect bicameralism"), like the modern Italian Parliament.

Thus, the Albertine Statute defined the two chambers of Parliament and the King as the "three legislative powers": if any one of these opposed a bill it would not become law and it could not be proposed again in that parliamentary session.

Article 9 of the Albertine Statute gave the King the power of "prorogal of the sessions" (proroga delle sessioni).

This enabled the King to block all legislative activity in Parliament, without dissolving the Chamber of Deputies, which remained in a state of "suspension" until he recalled it.