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The Constitution of India

§212Courts not to inquire into proceedings of the Legislature

(1) The validity of any proceedings in the Legislature of a State shall not be called in question on the ground of any alleged irregularity of procedure. (2) No officer or member of the Legislature of a State in whom powers are vested by or under this Constitution for regulating procedure or the conduct of business, or for maintaining order, in the Legislature shall be subject to the jurisdiction of any court in respect of the exercise by him of those powers.

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Constitution of India [As on 9th December, 2020], English PDF (bitstream 123456789/16124/1/the_constitution_of_india.pdf, 2,712,149 bytes) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-16. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Articles only — Schedules excluded from this pass. Consolidation as on 2020-12-09 (105th/106th Amendments not yet incorporated — refresh when a newer official English consolidation is sourced). Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.

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