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{{Infobox legislation
|short_title = The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976
|legislature = [[Parliament of India]]
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|long_title = An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.
|citation = [http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend41.htm 41st Amendment]
|territorial_extent = [[India]]
|enacted_by = [[Lok Sabha]]
|date_passed = 30 August 1976
|enacted_by2 = [[Rajya Sabha]]
|date_passed2 = 1 September 1976
|date_assented = 7 September 1976
|date_commenced = 7 September 1976
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|bill = Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Bill, 1976
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|bill_date = 26 August 1976
|introduced_by = [[Om Mehta]]
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|summary = Changed the age of retirement of the Chairman and members of the [[Civil service commission|Public Service Commissions]] from 60 to 62 years
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|status = in force
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The '''Forty-first Amendment''' of the [[Constitution of India]], officially known as '''The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976''', changed the age of retirement of the Chairman and members of the State [[Civil service commission|Public Service Commissions]] from 60 to 62 years, by amending article 316(2) of the Constitution.

==Text==
{{quote|BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
'''1. ''Short title''''' This Act may be called the Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976.

'''2. ''Amendment of article 316''''' In article 316 of the Constitution, in clause (2) for the words "sixty years", the words "sixty-two years" shall be substituted.<ref>{{cite web|title=Texts of the Constitution Amendment Acts|url=http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/A.pdf|work=Lok Sabha Secretariat|accessdate=7 December 2013|pages=501–502|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013036/http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/A.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2013|url-status=dead}} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend41.htm |title=The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976|accessdate=8 December 2013}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>}}

The relevant amended text of clause (2) of article 316, after the 41st Amendment, is given below:

{{quote|'''316. ''Appointment and term of office of members.'''''
'''(2)''' A member of a [[Civil service commission|Public Service Commission]] shall hold office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains, in the case of the [[Union Public Service Commission|Union Commission]], the age of sixty-five years, and in the case of a State Commission or a Joint Commission, the age of <s>sixty years</s> ''sixty-two years'', whichever is earlier:<ref name="Constitution1949">{{cite web|title=The Constitution of India (1949)|url=http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/E.pdf|work=Lok Sabha Secretariat|accessdate=30 November 2013|pages=1076–1077|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013102/http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/E.pdf|archivedate=3 December 2013|df=dmy-all}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>}}

==Proposal and enactment==
''The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976'' was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 26 August 1976, as the ''Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Bill, 1976'' (Bill No. 85 of 1976). It was introduced by [[Om Mehta]], then Minister of State in the [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]], Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms and Department of Parliamentary Affairs, and sought to amend article 316 of the Constitution.<ref name="Constitution Amendment in India">{{cite book|title=Constitution Amendment in India|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Northern Book Centre|location=New Delhi|pages=72–73;190;361|isbn=9788172110659|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yp0yhzdKWIC|edition=Sixth|editor=R.C. Bhardwaj|accessdate=8 December 2013}}</ref> The full text of the Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the bill is given below:

{{quote|Article 316(2) of the Constitution provides that the Chairman and Members of a State Public Service Commission or Joint Commission shall retire at 58 or hold office for a term of six years from the date on which they enter service, whichever is earlier. This was the position when the Constitution came into force. Subsequently, while the age of retirement of the High Court Judges was changed to 58, that of the Chairman and the Members of the State Public Service Commissions remained unchanged.

The same article provides that one-half of the members of every Public Service Commission shall be employees of the Government of India or the Government of a State. The age of retirement of Government employees was 55 originally but was later changed to 58 in the case of All-India Services, Central Government servants and the Government servants of several States. Membership of the Commission is no attraction, therefore, to them, as they will have only two years to serve on the Commission which position is not desirable from the point of view of the efficient functioning of the Commission.

Academicians like University Professors are eligible for appointment to the State Public Service Commissions. The age of retirement of University Professors has been recently changed to 58. It will not be attractive for these academicians to serve on a Public Service Commission if the age of retirement remains sixty. The Chairman/Members of a State Public Service Commission are forbidden to serve under the Government of India or a State Government after retirement. Consequently, no eminent academician will be eager to accept appointment on the Commission unless the age of retirement is changed to 62.

The proposal is to raise the age of retirement of the Chairman and Members of the State Public Service Commissions to 62. The Bill seeks to give effect to this proposal.
|Om Mehta|{{cite web|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend41.htm |title=The Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Bill, 1976}} {{PD-notice}}}}
{{Indian Constitution TOC}}
The Bill was considered by the Lok Sabha on 30 August 1976 and passed on the same day, with a formal amendment replacing the word "Forty-third"” by the word "Forty-first" in clause 1. The Bill, as passed by the Lok Sabha, was considered and passed by the Rajya Sabha on 1 September 1976.<ref name="Constitution Amendment in India"/> The bill received assent from then President [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]] on 7 September 1976, and came into force on the same day.<ref name="Constitution Amendment in India"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/amendment.htm |title=The Constitution (Amendment) Acts |publisher=Constitution.org |accessdate=2013-12-05}}</ref> It was notified in ''[[The Gazette of India]]'' on 9 September 1976.<ref name="Lok Sabha Secretariat">{{cite web|title=Constitution Amendment in India|url=http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/2.pdf|work=Lok Sabha Secretariat|accessdate=8 December 2013|page=158|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013122/http://164.100.47.134/intranet/CAI/2.pdf|archivedate=3 December 2013|df=dmy-all}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of amendments of the Constitution of India]]

==References==
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[[Category:Amendments of the Constitution of India|41]]
[[Category:1976 in India]]
[[Category:1976 in law]]
[[Category:Indira Gandhi administration]]

Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India - Revision history

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