The Constitution of India
Exercise of legislative powers under Proclamation issued under article 356
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Provision
- 357
- Source language
- eng+tel
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official source(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. Omitted by the Constitution (Sixty-third Amendment) Act, 1989, s.2 (w.e.f.6.1.1990) and inserted by the Constitution
(Sixty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1990, s.2 (w.e.f.16.4.1990).
228 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part XVIII. - Emergency Provisions)
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[(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 sub-clause (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has ceased to operate, continue in force until altered or repealed or amended by a competent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.]
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The Constitution of India · legislative.gov.in · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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