power to make 11 (1) the commission may make rules to regulate its procedure and conduct rules 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 as soon as may be after it is made, be laid 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 10 the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the house agrees in making any modification in the rule, or the house agrees that the rule 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 in the rules as the commission may consider fit 15 (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 enforced by the commission by notification in the official gazette 20 transitional provision 12 all persons employed in the secretarial staff immediately before the commencement of this act, shall be treated, for all purposes, as if their appointment had been made by the commission, unless the commission decides otherwise saving 13 all rules, regulations and orders made and in force immediately before the commencement of this act, shall be deemed to have been made by the commission and 25shall continue to be valid and operative unless modified or revoked by the commission, 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 1s an essential adjunct of parliamentary democracy the significance of this conceptualisation of a secretariat independent of the executive was fully realised in the 1920s when the then central legislative assembly passed unanimously a resolution moved by pandit motilal nehru and seconded by lala lajpat rai the independent position of the secretartats of the houses of parliament was recognised by the makers of our constitution when they considered 1t necessary to incorporate a separate and exclusive article (article 98) in the constitution this article envisages enactment by parliament of a law to regulate the recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed in the secretanal staff of the house the enactment of such a legislation ts long overdue the unique position of rayya sabha secretariat (council of states) 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 chairman in watching and safeguarding the imterests of the secretarial staff in the service of the house and its members this institutional arrangement 1s sought to be made by providing a council of states commission hence this bill y lakshmi prasad financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill seeks to provide for the constitution of a council of states commission its members are the members of the council of states 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 would be a marginal one and that would not be possible to be quantified in specific terms at this stage memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 11 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 respect 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