Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act : Speaker and Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution

Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act,1969

Act No : 55

Section : Speaker and Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for hisremoval from office is under consideration.

24. Speaker and Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration. (1) At any sitting of the Legislative Assembly, while any resolution for the removal of the Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Speaker, or, while any resolution for the removal of the Deputy Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Deputy Speaker, shall not, though he is present, preside, and the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 23 shall apply in relation to every such sitting as they apply in relation to a sitting from which the Speaker or, as the case may be, the Deputy Speaker is absent. (2) The Speaker shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of, the Legislative Assembly while any resolution for his removal from office is under consideration in the Legislative Assembly and shall, notwithstanding anything in section 27, be entitled to vote only in the first instance on such resolution or on any other matter during such proceedings but not in the case of an equality of votes.