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Lok Sabha, elections to Lok Sabha are held on the basis of adult suffrage. A person who is a citizen of India and is not less than 25 years of age and possesses such other qualifications as may be prescribed by law made by Parliament, is qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in Lok Sabha, Constitution of India, Art. 84.Lok Sabha, is the House of the people consists of a maximum of 552 members, including two representing the Anglo-India Community filled by nomination by the President, 530 members are directly elected from territorial constituencies in the States and not more than 20 members are chosen represent Union Territories, 79 Seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 41 for Scheduled Tribes. [Representation of Peoples Act, 1951]...
Lok Sabha Secretariat
Lok Sabha Secretariat, is the Secretariats of the House of the people; known as Legislative Assembly Department when it was first set up as a separate self-contained Department on January 10, 1929. Later the name was changed to Parliament Secretariats on January 26, 1950, when the Constitutions Assembly emerged as the Provisional Parliament, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 1041....
Estimates
Estimates, in India, the estimates are presented to the Lok Sabha in the form of estimates, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 2001, p. 743.Is the certain details of the anticipated expenses of each department and the specific purposes for which the money is required, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding & Philip Laundry, p. 252.In U.K., the Crown's request for supply are sub-mitted to the House of Commons in the form of estimates, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine, May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 745.Is the annual detailed statements of the public expenditure proposed to be undertaken by the Government, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956 and H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970, p. 94.Contain the details of the anticipated expenses of each department and the specific purposes for which the money is required, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 252.In India, the estimates are...
Calling attention
Calling attention, in Indian Parliament, a member may, with the previous permission of the Speaker, call the attention of a minister to a matter of urgent public importance and request a statement thereon, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS).Only matters concerning the Government of India can be raised through a Calling Attention Notice, the notice must be given on the same day on which a matter has arisen or become publicly known, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS).In the Lok Sabha not more than five members whose names are shown in the list of business are allowed to ask clarificatory questions, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS)....
Chamber
Chamber, the place where certain assemblies are held; also the assemblies themselves.In India, the halls where the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha meet and deliberate are known as Lok Sabha Chamber and Rajya Sabha Chamber respectively, these Chambers are not allowed to be used for any purpose other than the sittings of the respective House, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of (Rajya Sabha) Business in the Council of States, 5th Edn., 2000, r. 384(LS)., the place where certain assemblies are held; also the assemblies themselves.In India, the halls where the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha meet and deliberate are known as Lok Sabha Chamber and Rajya Sabha Chamber respectively, these Chambers are not allowed to be used for any purpose other than the sittings of the respective House, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of (Rajya Sabha) Business in the Council of States, 5th Edn., 2000, r. 384(LS)....
Exceptional grant
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 Parliamen...
Chairman
Chairman, 'Chairman' according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary means a person chosen to preside over meetings, e.g., one who presides over the meetings of the Board of Directors. In Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Ed., p. 230, the same expression is defined as a name given to a Presiding Officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Ed., pp. 189-190, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, 2nd Ed., p. 299, and Aiyer's Judicial Dictionary, 11th Ed., p. 238. The function of the Chairman would, therefore, be to preside over meetings, preserve order, conduct the business of the day, ensure that precise decisions are taken and correctly recorded and do all that is necessary for smooth transaction of business. The nature and duties of this office may vary depending on the nature of business to be transacted but b...
Debate
Debate, is a sum of money reduced to a certainty and does not include a claim for uncertain damages, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 315.Is a sum payable in respect of a liquidated money demand recoverable by action, Stroud's Dictionary of Law, p. 612When the debate on any motion becomes unduly protracted the speaker can fix a time limit for its completion. At the appointed hour, the question is put forthwith and thus the debate on the subject is closed, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, rule 263.A member has to be relevant to the subject under discussion, if he persists in irrelevance the Speaker can direct him to discontinue his speech, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, rule 356.In the Indian Parliament, a debate takes place on a motion, resolution etc., moved in the House, Debate also takes place under short duration discussion although no formal motion has been moved; no debate is all...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Bar of the House
Bar of the House, in the Lok Sabha, the Bar consists of a wooden Bar placed between two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker makes an announcement about it in the House and emphasizes the solemnity of the occasion and asks the members to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is brought in and he stands at the Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501.In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes persons who are not peers. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 24.Bar of the House, in the House of Commons, the Bar consis...
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