Constitution Section 255 — Requirements as to recommendations and previous sanctions to be regarded as matters of procedure only

Part XI — RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE STATES — Distribution of Legislative Powers

Constitutional

Summary

If a law passed by Parliament or a State Legislature needed a recommendation or prior approval from the Governor, Rajpramukh, or President under the Constitution, that law will not be considered invalid just because that recommendation or approval was not given beforehand. Instead, the law will be valid as long as it received assent after being passed—either from the same official who should have given the recommendation, or from the President in certain cases. This means the requirement for a recommendation or prior sanction is treated as a procedural step, not a condition that can make the law void if missed.

Official Text

No Act of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State , and no provision in any such Act, shall be invalid by reason only that some recommendation or previous sanction required by this Constitution was not given, if assent to that Act was given—

(a) where the recommendation required was that of the Governor, either by the Governor or by the President;

(b) where the recommendation required was that of the Rajpramukh, either by the Rajpramukh or by the President;

(c) where the recommendation or previous sanction required was that of the President, by the President.General