## CONSTITUTION 357

### CONSTITUTION 357 — Exercise of legislative powers under Proclamation issued under article 356
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> 357. Exercise of legislative powers under Proclamation issued under
article 356.-(1) Where by a Proclamation issued under clause (1) of article
356, it has been declared that the powers of the Legislature of the State shall be
exercisable by or under the authority of Parliament, it shall be competent-
(a) for Parliament to confer on the President the power of the
Legislature of the State to make laws, and to authorise the President to
delegate, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose, the
power so conferred to any other authority to be specified by him in that
behalf;
(b) for Parliament, or for the President or other authority in whom
such power to make laws is vested under sub-clause (a), to make laws
conferring powers and imposing duties, or authorising the conferring of
powers and the imposition of duties, upon the Union or officers and
authorities thereof;
(c) for the President to authorise when the House of the People is
not in session expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State
pending the sanction of such expenditure by Parliament.

1. Ins. by the Constitution (Thirty-eighth Amendment) Act, 1975, s. 6 (with retrospective
effect) and subsequently subs. by the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act,
1978, s. 38, for cl. (5) (w.e.f. 20-6-1979).
2. Proviso omitted by the Constitution (Sixty-third Amendment) Act, 1989, s. 2
(w.e.f. 6-1-1990) and subsequently ins. by the Constitution (Sixty-fourth Amendment)
Act, 1990, s. 2 (w.e.f. 16-4-1990).
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1[(2) Any law made in exercise of the power of the Legislature of the State
by Parliament or the President or other authority referred to in subclause (a) of clause (1) which Parliament or the President or such other authority
would not, but for the issue of a Proclamation under article 356, have been
competent to make shall, after the Proclamation has ceased to operate, continue
in force until altered or repealed or amended by a competent Legislature or other
authority.]