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INDIAN COUNCIL ACT 1909 [
PART 1]#Historicalbackground This Act is also known as
Morley-Minto Reforms (Lord Morley was the then Secretary of State for India and Lord Minto was the then Viceroy of India).
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The features of this Act were as follows :-
◇ It considerably increased the
size of the legislative councils, both Central and provincial. The number of members in the Central legislative council was raised from
16 to 60. The number of members in the provincial legislative councils was not uniform.
◇ It
retained official majority in the Central legislative council, but allowed the provincial legislative councils to have non official majority.
◇ It
enlarged the deliberative functions of the legislative councils at both the levels. For example, members were
allowed to ask supplementary questions, move resolutions on the budget and so on.
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