Part XXI · Constitution, the President may by Proclamation—

Article 373 Power of President to make order in respect of persons under preventive detention in certain cases.

This article was a temporary power on preventive detention. Until Parliament acted under article 22, or one year passed, the President could make orders on preventive detention. The year closed in 1950. The article stands as history of the first year.

1. Until provision is made by Parliament under clause (7) of article 22, or until the expiration of one year from the commencement of this Constitution, whichever is earlier, the said article shall have effect as if for any reference to Parliament in clauses (4) and (7) thereof there were substituted a reference to the President and for any reference to any law made by Parliament in those clauses there were substituted a reference to an order made by the President.

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