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214                    THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                        (Part XVIII.—EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)

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          [(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (4), a resolution with
respect to the continuance in force of a Proclamation approved under clause (3)
for any period beyond the expiration of one year from the date of issue of such
Proclamation shall not be passed by either House of Parliament unless—
                (a) a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, in the whole of
        India or, as the case may be, in the whole or any part of the State, at the
        time of the passing of such resolution, and
                (b) the Election Commission certifies that the continuance in force
        of the Proclamation approved under clause (3) during the period
        specified in such resolution is necessary on account of difficulties in
        holding general elections to the Legislative Assembly of the State
        concerned:]
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          [Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to the Proclamation
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issued under clause (1) on the 11th day of May, 1987 with respect to the State
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of Punjab.]
        357. Exercise of legislative powers under Proclamation issued under
                                               aC
article 356.—(1) Where by a Proclamation issued under clause (1) of
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article 356, it has been declared that the powers of the Legislature of the State
shall be exercisable by or under the authority of Parliament, it shall be
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competent—
                (a) for Parliament to confer on the President the power of the
        Legislature of the State to make laws, and to authorise the President to
        delegate, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose, the
        power so conferred to any other authority to be specified by him in that
        behalf;
                (b) for Parliament, or for the President or other authority in whom
        such power to make laws is vested under sub-clause (a), to make laws
        conferring powers and imposing duties, or authorising the conferring of
        powers and the imposition of duties, upon the Union or officers and
        authorities thereof;
             (c) for the President to authorise when the House of the People is
       not in session expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State
       pending the sanction of such expenditure by Parliament.



1. Ins. by the Constitution (Thirty-eighth Amendment) Act, 1975, s. 6 (with retrospective
   effect) and subsequently subs. by the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment)
   Act, 1978, s. 38, for cl. (5) (w.e.f. 20-6-1979).
2. Proviso omitted by the Constitution (Sixty-third Amendment) Act, 1989, s. 2
   (w.e.f. 6-1-1990) and subsequently ins. by the Constitution (Sixty-fourth Amendment)
   Act, 1990, s. 2 (w.e.f. 16-4-1990).

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