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REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 2

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 21] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1976/MAGHA 14,1897

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may he filed

as a separate compilation.

LOK SABHA

The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on the 3rd February,

1976: —

BILL NO. 34 OF 1976

A Bill to provide for the extension of the duration of the present House

of the People.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the

Republic of India as follows: —

1. This Act may be called the House of the People (Extension of

Duration) Act, 1976.

Short title

2. The period of five years [being the period for which the House of the People may, under clause (2) of article 83 of the Constitution, continue from the date appointed for its first meeting] in relation to the present House of the People shall, while the Proclamations of Emergency issued on the 3rd day of December, 1971 and on the 25th day of June, 1975, are both in operation, be extended for¹ a period of one year:

Extension of dura- tion of the present House of the People.

Provided that if. both or either of the said Proclamations cease or ceases to operate before the expiration of the said period of one year, the present House of the People shall, unless previously dissolved under clause (2) of article 83 of the Constitution, continue until six months after the cesser of operation of the said Proclamations or Proclamation but not beyond the said period of one year. (563) 564 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 2]

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

The duration of the present House of the People will in normal course expire on the 18th March, 1976. Having regard to the Proclama- tions of Emergency now in operation, it is considered necessary to extend the duration o£ the present House of the People by a period of one year. Under the proviso to clause (2) of article 83 of the Constitution, while¹ a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, Parliament has the power to extend by Jaw the duration of the House of the People for a period not exceeding one year at a time and not extending in any case? beyond a period of six months aftei the Proclamation has ceased to operate.

The Bill seeks to give fttect to the above object.

NEW DELHI;

H. R. GOKHALE.

The 31st January, 1976

S. L. SHAKDHER, Secretary-General.

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