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Amended Provisions of the Constitution


Made Sikkim a full-fledged State of the Indian Union and omitted the Tenth Schedule.

Provided legislative assembly and council of ministers for the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh.

1. Made the declaration of emergency by the president non-justiciable.

2. Made the promulgation of ordinances by the president, governors and administrators of union territories

non-justiciable.

3. Empowered the president to declare different proclamations of national emergency on different grounds simultaneously.

1. Placed the disputes relating to the president, vice-president, prime minister and Speaker beyond the scope of the judiciary. They are to be decided by such authority as may be determined by the Parliament.

2. Included certain Central acts in the Ninth Schedule.