{"id":35598,"date":"2023-05-24T03:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=35598"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:44:28","slug":"power-to-promulgate-repromulgate-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/power-to-promulgate-repromulgate-ordinances\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to promulgate-repromulgate ordinances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Power to Promulgate Ordinance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Repromulgation of Ordinance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SC Verdicts on Promulgation\/ Repromulgation of Ordinances<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ordinance wrt Power over Services in the NCT<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The central government recently promulgated an Ordinance to undo an unanimous verdict of a 5-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<li>The SC verdict gave the Delhi government control over the transfer and posting of officials in the National Capital Territory (NCT), except with regard to public order, police, and land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Power to Promulgate Ordinance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 123<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution empowers the <strong>President <\/strong>to promulgate Ordinances during recess of Parliament.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 213<\/strong> deals with the broadly analogous powers of the Governor to promulgate an Ordinance when the state legislature is not in session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 123 <\/strong>reads \u201cif at any time, <strong>except when both Houses of Parliament are in session<\/strong>, the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action, he may promulgate Ordinances.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Since the President acts on the advice of the Council of Ministers (<i>Article<\/i> <i>74<\/i>), <strong>it is in effect the government that decides to bring the Ordinance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>An Ordinance <strong>shall have the same force and effect<\/strong> as an Act of Parliament. But the government is required to bring an Ordinance before Parliament for <strong>ratification<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>If the government fails to do so <strong>it will lead to its lapsing at the expiration of 6 weeks <\/strong>from the reassembly of Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>The Ordinance <strong>may lapse earlier if the President withdraws it<\/strong>\/ if both Houses pass resolutions disapproving it (rejection, however, imply the government has lost majority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E9VNYb5brR8\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9VNYb5brR8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Repromulgation of Ordinance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As lawmaking is a legislative function, Ordinance power is provided for <strong>urgent requirements<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, to avoid lapsing of an Ordinance (6 weeks after the two Houses reassemble),<strong> it has to be converted into an Act<\/strong> (through Parliamentary ratifications) by then.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repromulgation <\/strong>of an Ordinance, on the other hand, essentially extends its life and allows the executive to usurp legislative power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>SC Verdicts on Promulgation\/ Repromulgation of Ordinances:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>RC Cooper Case (1970): <\/strong>On the basis that no immediate action was required and that the ordinance had solely been issued to avoid debate and discussion in the legislature, the President&#8217;s decision to promulgate the ordinance might be challenged.<\/li>\n<li><strong>D C Wadhwa v. State of Bihar (1986): <\/strong>It would be a colourable exercise of power for the Government to ignore the Legislature and repromulgate the Ordinance while continuing to regulate the life and liberty of its citizens through Executive-made Ordinances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Krishna Kumar Singh v. State of Bihar (2017):<\/strong> A 7-judge Bench of the court reiterated that legislation should normally be done by the legislature, and the Governor\u2019s power to issue an Ordinance is in the nature of an <strong>emergency power.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Repeated re-promulgations<\/strong> without bringing the Ordinance to the legislature would usurp the legislature\u2019s function and would be unconstitutional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ordinance wrt Power over Services in the NCT:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It gave the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, who is appointed by the Centre, <strong>power over services.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It established a <strong>National Capital Civil Service Authority<\/strong> &#8211; comprising the Chief Minister and two senior IAS officials.\n<ul>\n<li>It would decide matters by majority of votes of the members present and voting &#8211; essentially <strong>creating a situation in which the view of the elected CM could potentially be overruled<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the National Capital Civil Service Authority?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Formed under the chairmanship of the CM of the Delhi Government, this Authority will have the right to make recommendations in service-related matters of officers\/officials working in The Government of Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/govts-power-to-promulgate-repromulgate-ordinances-why-how-8625383\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Govt\u2019s power to promulgate, repromulgate Ordinances \u2014 why and how<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 123\/213 of the Indian Constitution empowers the President\/Governor to promulgate Ordinances during recess of Parliament\/State legislature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598","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=35598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}