Constitution Section 74 — Council of Ministers to aid and advise President

Part V — THE UNION — Council of Ministers

Constitutional

Summary

The Prime Minister leads a group called the Council of Ministers, whose job is to help and give advice to the President. The President must follow this advice when carrying out his duties, but he can ask the Council to think again about its advice. After the Council reconsiders, the President must then follow the new advice they give. No court can investigate whether any advice was given to the President or what that advice was.

Official Text

(1) There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to aid and advise the President who shall, in the exercise of his functions, act in accordance with such advice:Provided that the President may require the Council of Ministers to reconsider such advice, either generally or otherwise, and the President shall act in accordance with the advice tendered after such reconsideration.

(2) The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the President shall not be inquired into in any court.