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Home Dictionary Name: assembly constituencyAssembly constituency
Assembly constituency, means a constituency provided by law for the purpose of elections to the Legislative Assembly of a State. [Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), s. 2 (b); See also Act (1 of 1992), s. 2(b)]...
Electoral roll
Electoral roll, The electoral roll referred to in s. 62(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 must be understood to be the electoral roll that was in force on the last day for making the nominations for the election, Baidyanath Panjiar v. Sitaram Mahto, (1969) 2 SCC 447: AIR 1970 SC 314: (1970) 1 SCR 839.For being eligible to be included in electoral register, one has to be: (1) a resident in that Constituency, (2) should not be subject to any legal incapacity, (3) has to be either a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, (4) has to be of 18 years of age or above on the date of poll, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 26.In U.K., it is known as electoral Register. The Representation of People Act, 1983 provides for the presentation of Registers of Parliamentary electors once a year and all persons who claim to vote must be registered before election, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 28.Is known as 'voters' l...
Constituent Assembly
Constituent Assembly, is a legislative body charged with the task of framing or revising a Constitution; set up for India after it became independent in 1947 for the purpose of framing its Constitution, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Common-wealth, Wilding and Philips Laundry, p. 273...
constituent
constituent 1 : one who authorizes another to act as agent : principal 2 : a member of a constituency adj : having the power to create a government or to frame or amend a constitution [a assembly] ...
Constituent power
Constituent power, the expression 'constituent power' is used to describe only the nature of the power of amendment. Every amending power, however large or however small it might be, is a facet of a constituent power. The power, though described to be 'constituent power', still continues to be any 'amending power'. The scope and ambit of the power is essentially contained in the word 'amendment'. Hence, from the fact that the new Article specifically refers to that power as a constituent power, it cannot be understood that the contents of the power have undergone any change, Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, (1973) 4 SCC 225 (488): AIR 1973 SC 1461. [Constitution (Twenty Fourth) Amendment Act, 1971, s. 3(b)]...
Unlawful assembly
Unlawful assembly, an assembly of five or more persons is designated an 'unlawful assembly', if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is:First.-To overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force, the Central or any State Govern-ment or Parliament or the Legislature of any State, or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant; orSecond.-To resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process; orThird.-To commit any mischief of criminal trespass, or other offence; orFourth.-By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person to take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right of supposed right; orFifth.-By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what ...
Parliamentary Constituency
Parliamentary Constituency, it is the parliamentary constituency that sends the representatives to fill the seats in the House of the people. Elections are held from such constituencies and candidates declared duly elected, fill the seats in the House of Parliament to which they are elected.Means a constituency provided by law for the purpose of elections to the House of the People. See also V.V. Giri v. D. Suri Dora, AIR 1959 SC 1318: (1960) 1 SCR 426. [Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), s. 2 (f)]...
assembly
assembly pl: -blies 1 a : a company of persons collected together in one place usually for some common purpose b cap : a legislative body esp. that makes up the lower house of a legislature see also general assembly, legislative assembly 2 : the act of coming together : the condition of being assembled see also unlawful assembly ...
National Assembly of the Church of England
National Assembly of the Church of England. 'The assembly constituted in accordance with the constitution set forth in the appendix to the address presented to His Majesty by the Convocations of Canterbury and York on the 10th day of May, 1919, and laid before Parliament' (Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act, 1919). The Church Assembly consists of the House of Bishops (i.e., members of the Upper Houses of the two Convocations), the House of Clergy (i.e., members of the two Lower Houses), and the House of Laity, which consists of representatives from the two Provinces of Canterbury and York elected in accordance with the Rules contained in the Schedule to the Representation of the Laity Measure, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, No. 2). Measures passed by the Assembly are examined by an Ecclesiastical Committee consisting of 15 members of the House of Lords appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and 15 members of the House of Commons appointed by the Speaker. This Committee reports to Parliament. On...
unlawful assembly
unlawful assembly : the offense of assembling with a certain minimum number of others for the purpose of engaging in a riot or other unlawful conduct that threatens public safety, peace, or order ;also : a group so assembled ...
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