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Article 255

Part XI — Relations between the Union and the States · Constitution of India

Article 255

Requirements as to recommendations and previous sanctions to be regarded as matters of procedure only. No Act of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State , and no provision in any such Act, shall be invalid by reason only that some recommendation or previous sanction required by this Constitution was not given, if assent to that Act was given— (a) where the recommendation required was that of the Governor, either by the Governor or by the President; (b) where the recommendation required was that of the Rajpramukh, either by the Rajpramukh or by the President; (c) where the recommendation or previous sanction required was that of the President, by the President.

In plain wordsA law does not become invalid just because a required prior recommendation or sanction, say of the Governor or President, was skipped, as long as the right authority eventually gave assent. Procedural slip-ups alone do not kill otherwise valid laws.
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