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Home Bare Acts Phrase: chamberGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 31
Title: Joint Sitting Both Chambers in Certain Cases
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....shall meet accordingly: Provided that, if it appears to the Governor-General that the Bill is such a Bill as is mentioned in the proviso to sub-section (1) of this, section, he may summon the Chambers to meet in a joint sitting for the purpose aforesaid at any date, whether in the same session or in the next session. (3) The functions of the Governor-General under the provisos to the two last preceding sub-sections shall be exercised by him in his discretion. (4) If at the joint sitting of the two Chambers the Bill, with such amendments, if any, as are agreed to in joint sitting, is passed by a majority of the total number of members of both Chambers present and voting, it shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been passed by both Chambers: Provided that at a joint sitting-- (a) if the Bill, having been passed by one Chamber, has not been passed by the other Chamber with amendments and returned to the Chamber in which it originated, no amendment shall be proposed to the Bill other than such amendments (if any) as are made necessary by the delay in the passage of the Bill ; (b) if the Bill has been so passed and returned, only such amendments as.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1915-19 [Repealed] Section 63E
Title: Membership of Both Chambers
State: Central
Year: 1915
1 [63E. Membership of both chambers (1) An official shall not be qualified for election as a member of either chamber of the Indian legislature, and if any non-official member of either chamber accepts office in the service of the Crown in India, his seat in that chamber shall become vacant. (2) If an elected member of either chamber of the Indian legislature becomes a member of the other chamber, his seat in such first-mentioned chamber shall thereupon become vacant. (3) If any person is elected a member of both chambers of the Indian legislature he shall, before he takes his seat in either chamber, signify in writing the chamber of which he desires to be a member, and thereupon hisseat in the other chamber shall become vacant. (4) Every member of the Governor-General's Executive Council shall be nominated as a member of one chamber of the Indian legislature, and shall have the right of attending in and addressing the other chamber, but shall not be a member of both chambers.] ________________________ 1. See the footnote on page 33 supra.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 23
Title: Voting in Chambers, Power of Chambers to Act Notwithstanding Vacancies, and Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....of the Chambers] shall be determined by a majority of votes of themembers present and voting other than the President 2 [or Speaker] orperson acting as such ThePresident 2 [or Speaker] or person acting as such shall not vote inthefirst instance, but shall have and exercise a casting vote in the case of;anequality of votes. (2)3 [A Chamber of] the 4 [Federal] Legislature shall havepower to actnotwithstanding any vacancy in the membership thereof and anyproceedingsin the Legislature shall be valid notwithstanding that it isdiscovered subsequently that some person who was not entitled so to do sat orvoted orotherwise took part in the proceedings. (3)If at any time during a meeting of 5 [a Chamber] less than one-sixthofthe total number of members of 5 [the Chamber] are present, it shallbe theduty of the President 3 [or Speaker] or person acting as sucheither to adjourn the Chamber, or to suspend the meeting until at leastone-sixth of themembers are present. ___________________________ 1. Substituted by the words 'of the DominionLegislature' by Government of India (Commencement and Transitory Provisions)Order, 1936, paras. 3 and 11. 2.The word within brackets was.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 63
Title: Right of Governor to Address and Send Messages to Chambers
State: Central
Year: 1935
(1) The Governor may in his discretion address the Legislative Assembly or, in the case of a Province having a Legislative Council, either Chamber of the Provincial Legislature or both Chambers assembled together, and may for that purpose require theattendance of members. (2) The Governor may in his discretion send messages to the Chamber or Chambers of the Provincial Legislature, whether with respect to a Bill then pending in the Legislature or otherwise, and a Chamber to whom any message is so sent shall with all convenient dispatch consider any matter which they are required by the message to take into consideration.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 66
Title: Voting in Chambers, Power of Chambers to Act Notwithstanding Vacancies and Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1935
.....Chambers, of a Provincial Legislature shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and voting other than the Speaker or President, or person acting as such. The Speaker or President, or person acting as such shall not vote in the first instance, but shall have and exercise a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes. (2) A Chamber of a Provincial Legislature shall have power to actnotwithstanding any vacancy in the membership thereof, and any proceedings in a Provincial Legislature shall be valid notwithstanding that it isdiscovered subsequently that some person who was not entitled so to do,sat or voted or otherwise took part in the proceedings. (3) If at any time during a meeting of a Provincial LegislativeAssembly less than one-sixth of the total number of members of theChamber are present, or if at any time during a meeting of a ProvincialLegislative Council less than ten members are present, it shall be the dutyof the Speaker or President or person, acting as such either to adjournthe Chamber, or to suspend the meeting until at least one-sixth of the;members, or, as the case may be, at least ten members, are present.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 20
Title: Right of Governor-general to Address, and Send Messages to Chambers
State: Central
Year: 1935
(1)The Governor-General may in his discretion address 1 [either Chamberof]2 the Federal Legislature 1 [or both Chambers assembledtogether], and for that purpose require the attendance of members. (2) The Governor-General may 1 [inhis discretion] and messages to1 [either Chamber of] the Federal2 Legislature, whether with respect to aBill then pending in, the Legislature orotherwise, and 3 [a Chamber to whomany message is so sent] shall withall convenient dispatch consider anymatter which they are required by themessage to take into consideration. ___________________________ 1.The words within brackets were omitted, by Government of India (Commencement andTransitory Provisions) Order, 1936, paras. 3 and 11. 2.Substituted by the word 'Dominion', by Government of India (Commencementand Transitory Provisions) Order, 1936, paras. 3 and 11. 3.Substituted by the words 'the Legislature', by Government of India(Commencement and Transitory Provisions) Order, 1936, paras. 3 and 11.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionContempt of Courts Act, 1971 Section 7
Title: Publication of Information Relating to Proceeding in Chambers or in Camera Not Contempt Except in Certain Cases
State: Central
Year: 1971
.....of information of the description which is published; (c) where the court sits in chambers or in camera for reason connected with public order or the security of the State, the publication of information relating to those proceedings; (d) where the information relates to a secret process, discovery or invention which is an issue in proceedings. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-section (1), a person shall not be guilty of contempt of court for publishing the text or a fair and accurate summary of the whole or any part, of an order made by a court sitting in chambers or in camera, unless the court has expressly prohibited the publication thereof on grounds of public policy, or for reasons connected with public order or the security of the State, or on the ground that it contains information relating to a secret process, discovery or invention, or in exercise of any power vested in it.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 61
Title: Composition of Chambers of Provincial Legilature
State: Central
Year: 1935
(1) The Composition of the Chamber of Chambers of the Legislature of a Province shallbe such as is specified in relation to that Provincein the Fifth Schedule to this Act. (2) Every Legislative Assembly of every Province, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years1from the date appointed, for their firstmeeting and no longer, and the expiration of the said period of five yearsshall operate as a dissolution of the Assembly. (3) Every Legislative Council shall be a permanent body not subject dissolution but as near as may be one-third of the members thereof shall retire in every third year in accordance with the provision in that behalf made in relation to the Province under the said Fifth Schedule. _________________________ 1. Under section 1(1) of the India and Burma (Postponement of Elections) Act,1941 (4 & 5 Geo. 6, ch. 44) the first Legislative Assembly in each Province;was to continue until twelve months after the end of the war period; unless itwas previously dissolved under section 62 (2). And the expression 'the warperiod', meant the period for which the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act,1939, was in force.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 64
Title: Rights of Ministers and Advocate-general as Respects Chambers
State: Central
Year: 1935
Every minister and the Advocate-General shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise take part in the proceeding of, the Legislative Assembly of the Province or, in the case of a Province having a Legislative Council, both Chambers and any joint sitting of the Chambers, and to speak in, and otherwise take part in the proceedings of, any committee of the Legislature of which he may be named a member, but shall not, by virtue of the section, be entitled to vote.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGovernment of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 21
Title: Rights of Ministers, Counselors and Advocate-general as Respects Chambers
State: Central
Year: 1935
Everyminister 1 [every counsellor] and the Advocate-General shall have theright to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of, 2 [eitherChamber, any joint sitting of the Chambers, and any committee of theLegislature] of which he may be named a member, but shall not by virtue of thissection be entitled to vote. ___________________________ 1.The words within brackets were omitted, by Government of India(Commencement and Transitory Provisions) Order, 1936, paras. 3 and 11. 2.Substituted by the words 'the Dominion Legislature or any committeethereof, Government of India (Commencement and Transitory Provisions) Order,1936, paras. 3 and 11.
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