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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 35] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, FEBRUARY I6,1976/MAGHA 27,1897

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 16th February, 1976/Magha 27, 1897 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 16th February, 1976, and is hereby published for general informa- tion : —

THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE (EXTENSION OF DURATION)

ACT, 1976

No. 30 OF 1976

[16th February, 1976]

An Act 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 Short title, Duration) Act, 1976.

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

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 for a period of one year:

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.

K. K. SUNDARAM,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.