134 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
166 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948
readjusted by such authority, in such manner and with effect from such date as Parliament may, by law, determine.
Duration of Houses of Parliament.
Sessions of Parliament, prorogation and dissolution.
(9) When States for the time being specified in Part III of the First Schedule are grouped together for the purpose of returning representatives to the Council of States, the entire group shall be deemed to be a single State for the purposes of this article.
- (1) The Council of States shall not be subject to dissolution, but as nearly as possible one-third of the members thereof shall retire as soon as may be on the expiration of every second year in accordance with the provisions made in that behalf by Parliament by law.
(2) The House of the People, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for *five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer, and the expiration of the said period of *five years shall operate as the dissolution of the House:
Provided that the said period may, while a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, be extended by the President for a period not exceeding one year at a time and not extending in any case beyond a period of six months after the Proclamation has ceased to operate.
- (1) The Houses of Parliament shall be summoned to meet twice at least in every year, and six months shall not intervene between their last sitting in one session and the date appointed for their first sitting in the next session.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this article, the President may from time to time—
(a) summon the Houses or either House of Parliament to meet at such time and place as he thinks fit;
*The Committee has inserted “five years” instead of “four years” as the life of the House of the People as it considers that under the Parliamentary system of Government the first year of a minister’s term of office would generally be taken up in gaining knowledge of the work of administration and the last year would be taken up in preparing for the next general election, and there would thus be only two years left for effective work which would be too short a period for planned administration.
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