(2) The House of the People, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date
appointed for its first meeting and no longer and the expiration of the said period of 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
Parliament by law for a period not exceeding one year at a time and not extending in any case beyond a
period of six months after the Proclamation has ceased to operate.