power to make rules 13 (1) the commission may make rules to regulate its procedure and conduct of its business (2) the commission may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules to regulate recruitment and conditions of service of the secretarial staff (3) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the house, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the house agrees in making any modification in the tule, or the house agrees that the tule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be (4) any notice of amendment to such rules given by a member shall stand referred to the commission which shall consider it and make such changes jn the rules as the commission may consider fit (5) the final rule made by the commission after taking into consideration the amendments suggested by the members shall be laid before the house and, thereafter, on the house agreeing to the final rule on a motion made by a member of the commission, the rule or amendment to a rule, as the case may be, shall be promulgated by the commission by notification in the official gazette 20 transitional provisions 14 all persons employed in the secretarial staff immediately before the coming into force of this'act, shall be treated, for all purposes, as if their appointment had been made by the commission saving 15 all rules, regulations and orders made and in force immediately before the coming into force of this act, shall be deemed to have been made by the commission and shall continue to be valid and operative unless modified or revoked by the commission; 25 so, however, anything contained therein being inconsistent with any provisions of this act, shall be of no effect and be void to the extent of such inconsistency  statement of objects and reasonsthe concept of an independent secretariat of parliament is an essential adjunct of parliamentary democracy the significance of this conceptualization of a secretariat independent of the executive was fully realized in the 1920s when the then central legislative assembly passed unanimously a resolution moved by pandit motilal nehru and seconded by lala lajpat rai later, vithalbhai patel ceaselessly endeavoured in this direction the independent position of the secretariats of the houses of parliament was recognized by the makers of our constitution when they considered it necessary to incorporate a separate and exclusive article (article 98) in the constitution this article envisages enactment by parliament ofa law to regulate the recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to the secretariat staff of the house the enactment of such a legislation is long overdue the unique position of the lok sabha secretariat demands, as it does, a special sense of dedication and impartiality from the secretarial staff in the discharge of their duties and requires a broad-based institutional arrangement representing the house to be statutorily made available to assist the speaker in watching and safeguarding the interests of the secretarial staff in the service of the house and its members this institutional arrangement is sought to be made by providing a house of the people commission new deh; mohan singh may 19,2006 financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill seeks to provide for the constitution of a house of the people commission its members are the members of the house of the people who would be discharging their duties in relation to the commission as its members the expenditure towards the payment of their ta/da, if any, would be a part of the normal expenditure of the house the increase in the expenditure, if any, as a result of constituting the commission wouid be a marginal one and that would not be possible to be quantified in specific terms at this stage memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 13 of the bill seeks to confer on the commission the power to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act the matters in tespect of which such rules may be  made are matters of procedure and administrative details the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character