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Exceptional grant, the exceptional grants are to be regulated by the same procedure as is applicable in the case of demands for grants subject to such adaptations as the speaker, Lok Sabha, may deem to be necessary or expedient, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 215.

In India, the Lok Sabha has the power to make an exceptional grant which does not form part the current service of any financial year, Constitution of India, Art. 166.

In U.K. such grants are presented either as estimates or dealt with on a financial resolution. A grant to provide for rewards to individuals for distingui-shed public service, a special grant for presentation of a mail to a new commonwealth legislature etc. are examples of exceptional grant, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundary, p. 255.

Is the type of sanction of money by Parliament of cover expenses of an unusual character, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, Edn., p. 159.