Constitution of India, 1949
257.Exercise of legislative powers under
Proclamation issued under Article 356.-
(1) Whereby 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 authorize 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
authorizing the conferring of powers and the imposition of duties, upon the
Union or officers and authorities thereof;
(c) for the President
to authorize 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
(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ceased to operate, continue in force until altered or repealed or amended by a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.