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What minimum notice is needed for a Speaker-removal resolution?Read the answer and worked solution →When ordinary voting is tied, the presiding Speaker has a:Read the answer and worked solution →An Article 249 resolution allowing State List laws in the national interest starts in:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Article 312, which House passes the enabling resolution for a new All-India Service?Read the answer and worked solution →A bill only creates traffic fines. Does that alone make it a Money Bill?Read the answer and worked solution →Which act ends a parliamentary session rather than merely postponing a sitting?Read the answer and worked solution →An admitted adjournment motion in Lok Sabha sets aside normal business to discuss:Read the answer and worked solution →Who decides a Lok Sabha MP's defection case, excluding the Speaker's own case?Read the answer and worked solution →An ordinary bill is pending only in Rajya Sabha, not passed by Lok Sabha. On Lok Sabha's dissolution it:Read the answer and worked solution →Charged expenditure under Article 113 may be:Read the answer and worked solution →An ordinary bill returned by the President is passed again by both Houses. The President must:Read the answer and worked solution →With 500 current Lok Sabha members, are 245 votes enough to remove its Speaker?Read the answer and worked solution →An Article 249 vote has 210 MPs present: 30 abstain, 119 favour. What follows?Read the answer and worked solution →Lok Sabha dissolves: an ordinary bill it passed awaits Rajya Sabha; no joint-sitting notice exists. It:Read the answer and worked solution →A bill mixes Union tax with unrelated admission rules. Is it a Money Bill?Read the answer and worked solution →While a motion to remove the Speaker is considered, the Speaker may:Read the answer and worked solution →Lok Sabha total 543: 270 yes, 100 no, 30 abstain on an Article 368 bill. Does it pass?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What minimum notice is needed for a Speaker-removal resolution?

  1. 7 days
  2. 10 days
  3. 30 days
  4. 14 days
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Correct answer: D. 14 days

Article 94 requires at least fourteen days' notice before moving the resolution.

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When ordinary voting is tied, the presiding Speaker has a:

  1. Second ballot
  2. Double vote
  3. Party veto
  4. Casting vote
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Correct answer: D. Casting vote

The Speaker does not vote initially in ordinary voting but exercises a casting vote when votes are equal.

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An Article 249 resolution allowing State List laws in the national interest starts in:

  1. Lok Sabha
  2. Either House
  3. Rajya Sabha
  4. A joint sitting
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Correct answer: C. Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha alone passes the Article 249 resolution enabling Parliament to legislate on the specified State List matter.

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