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Home Dictionary Name: parliamentAct of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Parliament
Parliament, British Parliament consists of sovereign, House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Power of Parliament is transcendent and its Acts bind every subject; no authority other than Parliament can create, amend or abrogate a statute, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 429.Parliament, consists of the President, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha; each of its branches has peculiar powers in connection with their joint legislative function, Constitution of India, Art. 79, Parlia-mentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997.Parliament, has power to amend Constitution. (Constitution of India, Art. 368)Parliament, has power to make any law for the whole or any part of the territory of India for implementing any treaty, agreement or convention with any other country or countries or any decision made at any international conference, association or other body, Constitution of India, Art. 253.Parliament, like the British Parliament, the Par...
Parliament, the Imperial
Parliament, the Imperial. Formerly the Legislature of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, now, by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 (17 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 2, styled the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (Southern Ireland or the Irish Free State having gotten the status of a 'Dominion,' see IRELAND), consisting of the King, and the three estates of the Realm, i.e., the lords spiritual and temporal (called the House of Lords or Upper House of Parliament), and the persons elected by the people (called the House of Commons, or Lower, or Nether House of Parlia-ment). Under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67), s. 19 (a), and Sch. 5, Part II., as amended by 13 Geo. 5, sess. 2, c. 2, s. 1, 13 members are returned to the House of Commons in the Imperial Parliament by Northern Ireland, and the Irish Free State is excluded. Until the reign of Henry the Fourth both Houses sat together. See 4 Inst. P. 5.The word is...
Bill in Parliament
Bill in Parliament, is either (1) public, affecting the countries of England, Scotland, or Ireland generally, or a very important part of them, as London; (2) local and personal, affecting particular areas only, as railway construction bills, water or gas supply bills, etc.; or (3) private, as bills settling estate, divorce bills (rendered generally unnecessary by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857), and naturalization bills.All three kinds formerly required the assent of Sovereign, Lords, and Commons, but the assent of the House of Lords can now be dispensed with in the case of bills passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911; and by the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913 (3 Geo. 5, c. 3), resolution passed by a Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Commons varying or renewing taxation has for a limited period the same statutory effect as if contained in an Act of Parliament. In the case of local and personal bills and private bills the prom...
In respect of anything said in Parliament
In respect of anything said in Parliament, The word 'anything' is of the widest import and is equivalent to 'everything'. The only limitation arises from the words 'in Parliament' which means during the sitting of Parliament and in the course of the business of Parliament. Once it was proved that Parliament was sitting and its business was being transacted, anything said during the course of that business was immune from proceedings in any court, Tej Kiran Jain v. M. Sanjiva Reddy, AIR 1970 SC 1573 (1574). [Constitution of India, Article 105 (2)]...
As Parliament may by law determine
As Parliament may by law determine, the leverage given by constitutional mandate by reason of inclusion of the words 'readjusted by such authority and in such manner as Parliament may by law determine' (emphasis supplied) depicts the intent of Parliament as to its true effect. It is an enabling provision for adjustment of sets in accordance with the need of the situation. This authorization as contained in Articles 82 and 170 stands out to be an enabling provision for incorporating sub-article (3B) under Article 332. Be it noted that proportionality though mainly dependent upon the basis of population but it cannot always be done with arithmetical precision and mathematical nicety. The provision incorporated 'as Parliament may by law determine' stands out to be an enabling provision to meet the exigencies of the Constitution, Subrata Acharjee v. Union of India, (2002) 2 SCC 725: AIR 2002 SC 846 (846)....
Rolls of Parliament
Rolls of Parliament, the manuscript registers of the proceedings of our old Parliaments. In these rolls are likewise a great many decisions of difficult points of law which were frequently, informer times, referred to the determination of this Supreme Court by the judges of both benches, etc.'Formerly all bills were drawn in the form of petitions which were entered upon the parliament rolls, with the king's answer thereunto subjoined; not in any settled form of words, but as the circumstances of the case required; and at the end of each parliament, the judges drew them into the form of a statute, which was entered on the statute rolls.'--1 Bl. Com. 181....
Houses of Parliament
Houses of Parliament, are the two chambers of a bicameral Parliament, namely, the Upper House and the Lower House, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, Edn., p. 207.The two Houses of British Parliament are (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons; each House has distinctive duties, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 747....
Hung Parliament
Hung Parliament, is the Parliament wherein no party has won a working majority, Reader's Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary, 1984, p. 823.The result of a hung Parliament is either a minority Government or a coalition which can command a majority in the House, Vermon Bogdanor, p. 138....
In Parliament
In Parliament, means during the sitting of Parliament and in the course of the business of Parliament, Tej Kiran Jain v. N. Sanjiva Reddy, (1970) 2 SCC 272: AIR 1970 SC 1573 (Constitution of India, Art. 105)....
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