The Lok Sabha enjoys co-equal powers with Rajya Sabha regarding the (a) Impeachment of President (b) Election of the vice-President (c) Amendment of the Constitution (d) All of these

In India the power to grant Amnesty, i.e., general pardon to a body of people, has been given to the (a) Parliament (b) President (c) Chief of the Army Staff (d) Prime Minister

What is the maximum period during which the Parliament cannot meet? (a) Not more than one year (b) Not more than six months (c) Not more than five months (d) Not more than nine months

Either house of the Parliament is authorized to declare the seat of a member vacant who remains absent without permission from all the meetings of that House for a period of (a) Sixty days (b) Fifty days (c) Seventy days (d) Ninety days

When is a joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament convened? (a) If a Bill, which has been passed by one House and transmitted to other House (b) If the Houses have finally disagreed as to the amendments to be made in the Bill (c) If more than six months elapse from the date of the reception of the Bill by the other House without the Bill being passed by it (d) In all the above cases

Which of the following is not correct? (a) The Presiding Officer of the Lok Sabha is called Chairman (b) We have borrowed the Office of Speaker from the British Constitution (c) The Speaker is elected by the members of the House from among themselves (d) The Speaker should be a member of the House of the People

The introduction of a No-confidence Motion in the Lok Sabha requires the support of at least (a) 60 members (b) 50 members (c) 80 members (d) Two thirds of the membership of the House

Which one of the following is not a power of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha? (a) The Speaker decides as to whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not (b) The Speaker gives the permission to the Members to speak in the House (c) The Speaker puts Bills to vote and announces the result of such voting (d) The Speaker can dissolve the House of the People if he is unable to control it

The Speaker (a) Votes on every Bill (b) Votes on Money Bills only (c) Votes only to help the party in power (d) Has a casting vote in case of a tie

All speeches and remarks made in the House of the People are addressed to the (a) Prime Minister (b) Speaker (c) Minister concerned (d) President of India

The convention that once a Speaker is always a Speaker is followed in (a) U.K. (b) U.S.A. (c) Russia (d) India

SSC,

Before a Bill is passed into a law there are (a) Five Readings of the Bill (b) Three Readings of the Bill (c) Four Readings of the Bill (d) Two Readings of the Bill

A bill shall be deemed to be a Money Bill if it contains provisions dealing with (a) Imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax (b) The appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India (c) The declaring of any expenditure to be expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of India (d) All of these

The certificate of the Speaker regarding a Money Bill is (a) Not final (b) Subject to the approval of the President (c) Final and it cannot be challenged in any court of law (d) Final but can only be challenged in the Supreme Court

Under Article 113 of the Constitution, the estimates of expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of India (a) Shall not be submitted to the vote of Parliament (b) Shall be submitted to the vote of Parliament (c) Shall be submitted to the vote of Lok Sabha only (d) Shall be submitted to the vote of Rajya Sabha only