<P> Article 111 of the Indian constitution stipulates that the President shall give assent to a bill passed by both houses of the parliament or return the bill as soon as possible for reconsideration with his recommendation . The Indian Constitution does not give a specific time limit for presidential action on a bill sent by the Parliament . Thus, by indefinitely postponing action on a bill, the president effectively vetoes it . However, if a president receives a bill he or she had previously vetoed and sent back to Parliament, where such a veto has been overruled by another Parliamentary vote, then such a bill becomes an act within fourteen days of the President's receiving it regardless of his or her subsequent action or inaction . Zail Singh, President of India from 1982 until 1987, exercised a pocket veto to prevent the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill from becoming law . However, the Indian Supreme Court has not upheld the right of presidents to veto bills in this manner . </P> <P> A pocket veto occurs when a bill fails to become law because the president does not sign the bill and cannot return the bill to Congress within a 10 - day period because Congress is not in session . Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution states: </P> <P> If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a Law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a Law . </P> <P> The Constitution limits the president's period for decision on whether to sign or return any legislation to ten days (not including Sundays) while the United States Congress is in session . A return veto happens when the president sends a bill, along with his objections, back to the house of Congress from which it originated . Congress can override the veto by a two - thirds vote of both chambers, whereupon the bill becomes law . If Congress prevents the bill's return by being adjourned during the 10 - day period, and the president does not sign the bill, a "pocket veto" occurs and the bill does not become law . Congress can adjourn and designate an agent to receive veto messages and other communications so that a pocket veto cannot happen, an action Congresses have routinely taken for decades . If a bill is pocket vetoed while Congress is out of session, the only way for Congress to circumvent the pocket veto is to reintroduce the legislation as a new bill, pass it through both chambers, and present it to the President again for signature . On the other hand, Congress may override a regular veto without introducing new legislation through the process described in the U.S. Constitution . James Madison became the first president to use the pocket veto in 1812 . </P>

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