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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948 291
continue to be the Speaker of such Assembly func-
tioning under clause (1) of this article.
*(3) Such person as the Constituent Assembly of
the Dominion of India shall have elected in this
behalf shall be the provisional President of India 5 until a President has been elected in accordance
with the provisions contained in Chapter I of Part
V of this Constitution and has entered upon his
office.
(4) All persons holding office as ministers for 10
the Dominion of India immediately before the com-
mencement of this Constitution shall after such
commencement become members of the Council of
ministers of the provisional President under this
Constitution. 15
Provisions 312. (1) Until the House or Houses of the Legis- as to pro- lature of each State for the time being specified in visional Legis- Part I of the First Schedule has or have been duly constituted and summoned to meet for the first lature, session under the provisions of this Constitution, Governor, 20 the House or Houses of the Legislature of the etc. in each corresponding Province functioning immediately State in Part before the commencement of this Constitution shall I of the First exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred Schedule. by the provisions of this Constitution on the House or Houses of the Legislature of such State. 25
(2) Any person holding office as Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly or President of the Legisla-
tive Council of a Province immediately before the
commencement of this Constitution shall after such
30 commencement be the Speaker of the Legisla-
tive Assembly or the Chairman of the Legislative
Council, as the case may be, of the corresponding
State for the time being specified in Part I of the
First Schedule while such Assembly or Council func- tions under clause (1) of this article. 35
*Two members of the Committee, the Honourable Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar and Shri Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, are of opinion that
for clause (3) of article 311 , the following clause should be substi-
tuted :—
“(3) The President of the Constituent Assembly of India shall
become the provisional President of India until a President
has been elected in accordance with the provisions contained in
Chapter I of Part V of this Constitution and has entered upon his
office”.