For how long can a vote-on-account be in force?
Normally, the vote-on-account is taken for two months only. But during election year or when it is anticipated that the main Demands and Appropriation Bill will take longer time than two months, the vote-on-account may be for a period exceeding two months.
Typically this period does not exceed six months, as that is the maximum gap possible between two sittings of Parliament.
Normally a vote-on-account is in operation till the full Budget is passed. What is this Demands and Appropriation Bill?
Image: Former President R Venkataraman (seen with former President Abdul Kalam), who was then finance minister under Indira Gandhi, presented the only election-related vote-on-account (when the budget is not presented) in the eighties. | Photograph: Saab Press
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