{"id":12696,"date":"2023-07-01T04:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:26:50","slug":"what-is-the-ordinance-making-power-of-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-ordinance-making-power-of-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Ordinance making power of the President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ordinance making power of the President:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 123 <\/strong>of the Indian Constitution <strong>grants the President<\/strong> of India <strong>certain Lawmaking powers, i.e. to Promulgate Ordinances when either of the two Houses of the Parliament is not in session,<\/strong> which makes it impossible for a single House to pass and enact a law.<\/li>\n<li>These Ordinances <strong>have the same effect as an Act of Parliament<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ordinances <strong>may relate to any subject that the Parliament has the power to make law<\/strong>, and would be <strong>having the same limitations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Ordinances <strong>may have a retrospective effect and may modify or repeal any act<\/strong> of Parliament or other ordinances. It may be <strong>used to amend a tax law, but it can never amend the Constitution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The President <strong>may withdraw an ordinance at any time<\/strong>. However, he <strong>exercises his power with the consent of the Council of Ministers headed by the President<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>F<strong>ollowing limitations exist on the Ordinance making power,<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Legislature is not in session<\/strong>:\u00a0 The President can <strong>only promulgate<\/strong> an Ordinance <strong>when either of the two Houses of Parliament is not in session<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Immediate action is required<\/strong>: The President cannot promulgate an Ordinance <strong>unless he is satisfied that there are circumstances that require taking \u2018immediate action\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parliament should approve<\/strong>: Ordinances <strong>must be approved by Parliament within six weeks of reassembling<\/strong> or they shall cease to operate. The same will <strong>cease to operate if disapproved by either House.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In various judicial pronouncements, the Supreme Court has held that the <strong>President\u2019s Ordinance making power is not beyond the scope of judicial review.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an ordinance in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Ordinance is a decree or law promulgated by a state or national government without the consent of the legislature. It includes examples such as collecting revenue through new taxes or harnessing resources during an emergency or threat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/delhi-govt-moves-sc-to-quash-ordinance-giving-l-g-control-over-services\/article67027472.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Delhi govt. moves SC to quash ordinance giving L-G control over services<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 123 grants the President of India the power to promulgate Ordinances when either of the two Houses of the Parliament is not in session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}