2.7.2. Forty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution, 1978

A proviso was added in Art. 74 to the effect 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". The result is that the President has to act on the advice of the Ministers, but he can ask them to reconsider their advice and if after reconsideration, the Ministers decided to act against the advice of the President they can do so and the President has no choice but to follow it.