The Crown Rule (1858- 1947) - Part III : Indian Council Act (1892)

The Crown Rule (1858- 1947) - Part III

Indian Council Act (1892): 

Features of the Act:

• It increased the number of additional (non-official) members in the Central and provincial legislative councils but maintained the official majority in them.

• It increased the functions of legislative councils and gave them the power of discussing the budget and addressing questions to the executive.

It provided for the nomination of some non-official members of the;

• Central Legislative Council by the viceroy on the recommendations of the provincial legislative councils the Bengal Chamber of Commerce; and

• Provincial legislative councils by the Governors on the recommendations of the district boards, municipalities, universities, trade associations, zamindars, and chmabers.

The act made a limited and indirect provision for the use of election in filing up some of the non-official seats both in the Central and provincial legislative councils.

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