Duration of Houses of Parliament

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.... that behalf by Parliament by law. (2) The House of the People, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for ^3[five years] from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer and the expiration of the said period of ^4[five years] shall operate as a dissolution of the House: Provided that the said period may, while a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, be extended by Parliamen....