Part V · Procedure in Financial Matters
Article 113 Procedure in Parliament with respect to estimates.
This article separates the two kinds of spending. Expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of India is discussed but not voted on. It covers salaries of offices fixed by the Constitution itself. All other expenditure goes to the House of the People as demands for grants. The House may assent to a demand or refuse it.
- (1) So much of the estimates as relates to expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of India shall not be submitted to the vote of Parliament, but nothing in this clause shall be construed as preventing the discussion in either House of Parliament of any of those estimates.
- (2) So much of the said estimates as relates to other expenditure shall be submitted in the form of demands for grants to the House of the People, and the House of the People shall have power to assent, or to refuse to assent, to any demand, or to assent to any demand subject to a reduction of the amount specified therein.
- (3) No demand for a grant shall be made except on the recommendation of the President.
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This article separates the two kinds of spending. Expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of India is discussed but not voted on. It covers salaries of offices fixed by the Constitution itself. All other expenditure goes to the House of the People as demands for grants. The House may assent to a demand or refuse it. No demand can be made except on the President's recommendation.