The Constitution of India
Right of Governor to address and send messages to the House or Houses
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Provision
- 175
- Source language
- eng+tel
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official sourceGovernor may address the Legislative Assembly or, in the case of a State having a
Legislative Council, either House of the Legislature of the State, or both Houses assembled
together, and may for that purpose require the attendance of members.
1. Substituted by the Constitution (Sixteenth Amendment) Act, 1963, s.4 (w.e.f. 5.10.1963).
2. Substituted by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, s.8 (w.e.f. 18.6.1951).
86 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part VI. — The States)
(2) The Governor may send messages to the House or Houses of the Legislature of the
State, whether with respect to a Bill then pending in the Legislature or otherwise, and a
House to which any message is so sent shall with all convenient dispatch consider any matter
required by the message to be taken into consideration.
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The Constitution of India · legislative.gov.in · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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