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Article 42 1. Where the National Assembly is in session but not sitting when a declaration is made under Article 41(l) or (7), where shall immediately summon the Assembly to meet on a date that is not more than seven days after the publication the declaration. 2. Where the National Assembly stands dissolved when a declaration is made under Article 41(1) or (7), the President shall, in the Proclamation making the declaration, summon the members of the dissolved Assembly to meet on a date that is not more than seven days after the making of the declaration and the members may, until a new National Assembly first meets, meet and continue to meet for the purpose of discharging the functions of the National Assembly for the purposes of Article 41. 3. For the purposes of clause (2), the Speaker or Deputy Speaker immediately before the dissolution of the National Assembly shall preside over the sittings of the National Assembly.