Practice

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Consider the following pairs regarding the constitutional and legal principles involved in the exercise of ordinance-making power under Article 213 of the Constitution:

Pairs

  1. Colourable exercise of power — Legislature enacts a law that is facially valid but designed to achieve an object that falls outside its competence or is constitutionally impermissible
  2. Manifest arbitrariness — A legislative or executive action so unreasonable that it lacks an adequate determining principle and bears no rational nexus to the object sought to be achieved
  3. Doctrine that a law cannot be stayed unless it is absurd — Courts exercise restraint in granting stays against legislation because the mere possibility of abuse of a provision does not invalidate the law

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

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