Judicial interpretation

The legislative power conferred on the president under the article is not a parallel power of legislation. It is a power exercisable only when both house of parliament are not in session and it has been conferred ex necessitate in order to enable to executive to meet an emergency situation. The law made by the president is of strictly limited duration. Furthermore, this power to promulgate an ordinance is co-extensive with the power to make laws. The conferment of such power may appear undemocratic but it is not so, because the executive is clearly answerable to the legislature and if the president, on