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Home Dictionary Name: secretariatLok 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....
Lien
Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...
Secretariat
The office of a secretary the place where a secretary transacts business keeps records etc...
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Bill
Bill. See BILL IN CHANCERY; BILL OF EXCHANGE; BILL IN PARLIAMENT, etc.The word 'Bill' in the proviso must be interpreted to include an amendment of any of the clause of the Bill, at least any substantial amendment thereof, Babulal Parate v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51 (55): (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3, Proviso)Bill, in the Indian Parliament, a bill can originate in either House of Parliament. However a Money Bill and a Bill containing inter alia provisions attracting clause (1) of Article 110 of the Constitution cannot be introduced in Rajya Sabha, Constitution of India, Article 107.Bill, in England, a bill may be introduced either in the House of Commons or in the House of Lords but a great majority are introduced in the lower House; Generally, no Bill involving finance may be introduced in the House of Lords and in practice only routine and non-controversial Legislation is initiated in the Upper House. The office of the Speaker in the Parliament of Commonweal...
Business, list of
Business, list of, In the House of Commons, it is called order paper; published every morning under the authority of the speaker; contains the agenda of the sitting for the current day; an item which requires notice but is omitted from the paper is not taken; the items contained therein are (1) Private Business (2) unopposed returns (3) starred questions (4) notices of Public Bills and notions (5) Orders of the Day and Notices of Motions (6) Notices of the various Committees on public matters (7) unshared questions and (8) remaining orders of the day, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, pp. 217-18.Means the agenda for a day's sitting of the legislature; also called Agenda Paper. The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth -- Philip Laundy, p. 511.Business: list of, is prepared in the order in which items of business stand in it, Handbook for Members of Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 13th Edn., 1999, p. 73....
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, is an organisation composed of branches formed in the legislature of various Commonwealth countries. It consists of main Branches formed in the National Parliaments of Commonwealth, State and Provincial Branches formed in State or Provincial legislatures within member countries of the Commonwealth and territorial Parliaments, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2nd Edn., 2005, p. 78....
Emergency
Emergency, means a situation which is not normal, a situation which calls for urgent remedial action. Break-down of the Constitutional machinery in a State does gives rise to a situation of emergency, S.R. Bommai v. Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 1918 (2052): 1994(5) SCC 1.Emergency means situation which is not normal, situation which calls for urgent remedial action, Rameshwar Prasad v. Union of India, (2006) 2 SCC 1.Has to be laid before each House of Parliament, Constitution of India, Art. 352(4).'Proclamation of emergency arising out of war, external aggression or armed rebellion may be varied or revoked by subsequent proclamation, Constitution of India, Art. 352(2).In India, the President can issue proclamations to meet three types of emergencies viz., (i) emergency arising out of war, external aggression or armed rebellion, (ii) failure of Constitutional machinery in a State, and (iii) threat to financial stability or credit of India or any part of it.Is a situation in which the hea...
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...
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...
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