money bill

A Money Bill is a Bill that contains only provisions dealing with the matters in Article 110(1), such as the imposition or abolition of a tax, borrowing by the Government of India, the custody of and payments out of the Consolidated Fund, and appropriation from it. It can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha and only on the President's recommendation.

The Rajya Sabha cannot reject or amend it; it may only make recommendations within fourteen days, which the Lok Sabha may ignore. The Speaker's certificate that a Bill is a Money Bill is declared final, but the Supreme Court in the Aadhaar case held the certificate open to judicial review, and the larger question has since been referred to a larger bench.

Example

The challenge argued that the Act was wrongly certified as a Money Bill to avoid scrutiny by the Rajya Sabha.

In Indian law

• Articles 109 and 110, Constitution of India (Art. 199 for States)
• K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (Aadhaar), 2018 INSC 880
• Rojer Mathew v. South Indian Bank Ltd., 2019 INSC 1236: question referred to a larger bench

See also

legislation · separation of powers · ordinance

Read more in the study notes

• The Governor (Constitutional Law II)
• Parliament and the State legislatures (Constitutional Law II)
• Council of Ministers and collective responsibility (Constitutional Law II)
• The Speaker and parliamentary privileges (Constitutional Law II)
• Emergency provisions (Constitutional Law II)
• Budget: meaning, objectives, components and types; balanced and unbalanced budgets (Economic Theory and Public Finance)