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116                     THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                         (Part VIII.—The Union Territories)

article for such period and subject to such conditions as may be specified in
such law and make such incidental and consequential provisions as may appear
to him to be necessary or expedient for administering the National Capital
Territory in accordance with the provisions of article 239 and article 239AA.]
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          [239B. Power of administrator to promulgate Ordinances during
recess of Legislature.—(1) If at any time, except when the Legislature of 2[the
Union territory of 3[Puducherry]] is in session, the administrator thereof is
satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take
immediate action, he may promulgate such Ordinances as the circumstances
appear to him to require:
        Provided that no such Ordinance shall be promulgated by the
administrator except after obtaining instructions from the President in that
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        Provided further that whenever the said Legislature is dissolved, or its
functioning remains suspended on account of any action taken under any such
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law as is referred to in clause (1) of article 239A, the administrator shall not
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promulgate any Ordinance during the period of such dissolution or suspension.
        (2) An Ordinance promulgated under this article in pursuance of
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instructions from the President shall be deemed to be an Act of the Legislature
of the Union territory which has been duly enacted after complying with the
provisions in that behalf contained in any such law as is referred to in clause (1)
of article 239A, but every such Ordinance—
               (a) shall be laid before the Legislature of the Union territory and
        shall cease to operate at the expiration of six weeks from the reassembly
        of the Legislature or if, before the expiration of that period, a resolution
        disapproving it is passed by the Legislature, upon the passing of the
        resolution; and
               (b) may be withdrawn at any time by the administrator after
        obtaining instructions from the President in that behalf.
        (3) If and so far as an Ordinance under this article makes any provision
which would not be valid if enacted in an Act of the Legislature of the Union




1. Ins. by the Constitution (Twenty-seventh Amendment) Act, 1971, s. 3 (w.e.f. 30-12-1971).
2. Subs. by the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act, 1987 (18 of 1987) s. 63, for "a Union
   territory referred to in clause (1) article 239A" (w.e.f. 30-5-1987).
3. Subs. by the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 (44 of 2006), s. 4, for
    "Pondicherry" (w.e.f. 1-10-2006).

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