Article
123 Power of President to promulgate Ordinances during recess of
Parliament
(1) If at any time, except when both Houses
of Parliament are in session, the President is satisfied that
circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take
immediate action, he may promulgate such Ordinances as the
circumstances appear to him to require.
(2) An Ordinance
promulgated under this article shall have the same force and effect
as an Act of Parliament, but every such Ordinance -
(a) shall be
laid before both Houses of Parliament and shall cease to operate at
the expiration of six weeks from the reassembly of Parliament, or, of
before the expiration of that period resolutions disapproving it are
passed by both Houses, upon the passing of the second of those
resolutions; and
(b) may be withdrawn at any time by the
President.
Explanation: Where the Houses of Parliament are
summoned to reassemble on different dates, the period of six weeks
shall be reckoned from the later of those dates for the purposes of
this clause.
(3) If and so far as an Ordinance under this
article makes any provision which Parliament would not under this
Constitution be competent to enact, it shall be void.
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