Part VI · Officers of the State Legislature
Article 178 The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
In force
This article provides the officers of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly chooses two of its members as Speaker and Deputy Speaker. It does so as soon as may be. Whenever either office falls vacant, the Assembly chooses another member for it.
- Every Legislative Assembly of a State shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the Assembly to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the Assembly shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.
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This article provides the officers of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly chooses two of its members as Speaker and Deputy Speaker. It does so as soon as may be. Whenever either office falls vacant, the Assembly chooses another member for it.