Company : Sol Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Website : www.courtkutchehry.com HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE (EXTENSION OF DURATION) ACT, 1976 30 of 1976 [16th February, 1976] CONTENTS 1. Short title 2. Extension of duration of the present House of the People HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE (EXTENSION OF DURATION) ACT, 1976 30 of 1976 [16th February, 1976] An Act to provide for the extension of the duration of the present House of the People Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty- seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- 1. Short title :- This Act may be called the House of the People (Extension of Dutation) Act, 1976. 2. Extension of duration of the present House of the People :- The period of five years [being the period for which the House of the People may, under clause (2) of Art.83 of the Constitution of india , continue from the date appointed for its first meeting] in relation to the present House of the People shall, while the Proclamations of Emergency issued on the 3rd day of December, 1971 and on the 25th day of June, 1975, are both in operation, be extended for a period of one year : Provided that if both or either of the said Proclamations cease or ceases to operate before the expiration of the said period of one year, the present House of the People shall, unless previously dissolved under clause (2) of Art.83 of the Constitution of india , continue until six months after the cesser of operation of the said Proclamations or Proclamation but not beyond the said period of one year.