The Constitution of India
The Speaker or the Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Provision
- 181
- Source language
- eng+tel
- Recorded status
- in force
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- in force
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Official sourceremoval from office is under consideration:- (1) At any sitting of the Legislative
Assembly, while any resolution for the removal of the Speaker from his office is under
consideration, the Speaker, or while any resolution for the removal of the Deputy Speaker
from his office is under consideration, the Deputy Speaker, shall not, though he is present,
preside, and the provisions of clause (2) of article 180 shall apply in relation to every such
sitting as they apply in relation to a sitting from which the Speaker or, as the case may be,
the Deputy Speaker, is absent.
(2) The Speaker shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the
proceedings of, the Legislative Assembly while any resolution for his removal from office is
under consideration in the Assembly and shall, notwithstanding anything in article 189, be
entitled to vote only in the first instance on such resolution or on any other matter during
such proceedings but not in the case of an equality of votes.
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The Constitution of India · legislative.gov.in · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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