Explanation:

Joint sitting is an extraordinary machinery provided by the Constitution to resolve a deadlock between the two Houses over the passage of a bill. • A deadlock is deemed to have taken place under any one of the following three situations after a bill has been passed by one House and transmitted to the other House: o if the bill is rejected by the other House; o if the Houses have finally disagreed as to the amendments to be made in the bill; or o if more than six months have elapsed from the date of the receipt of the bill by the other House without the bill being passed by it. • In the above three situations, the president can summon both Houses to meet in a joint sitting for the purpose of deliberating and voting on the bill. • It must be noted here that the provision of joint sitting is applicable to ordinary bills or financial bills only and not to money bills or Constitutional amendment bills. Hence, statement 2 is correct. • If the bill (under dispute) has already lapsed due to the dissolution of the Lok Sabha, no joint sitting can be summoned. But, the joint sitting can be held if the Lok Sabha is dissolved after the President has notified his intention to summon such a sitting (as the bill does not lapse in this case). • After the President notifies his intention to summon a joint sitting of the two Houses, none of the Houses can proceed further with the bill. The Speaker of Lok Sabha presides over a joint sitting of the two Houses and the Deputy Speaker, in his absence. If the Deputy Speaker is also absent from a joint sitting, the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha presides. If he is also absent, such other person as may be determined by the members present at the joint sitting presides over the meeting. • The quorum to constitute a joint sitting is one-tenth of the total number of members of the two Houses.

• The joint sitting is governed by the Rules of Procedure of Lok Sabha and not of Rajya Sabha. • The Constitution has specified that at a joint sitting, new amendments to the bill cannot be proposed except in two cases: o those amendments that have caused final disagreement between the Houses; and Hence, statement 1 is not correct. o those amendments that might have become necessary due to the delay in the passage of the bill. • The joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament has been taken from the Australian Constitution. Hence, statement 3 is correct.