Main provisions of Indian councils Act of 1909: 

Main provisions of the Indian Council Act of 1909 have been given as below: 

1. Improvement in Central legislative assembly:

 Improving the Indian legislative assembly, number of its members was increased to 60, out of which there were 37 government members and 23 non-government members who were elected. The number of ex – officio members was 9 and they were nominated permanently. In this way, total number of members was 69. For the selection of the members, selection committee was divided into three parts – 

• General electorate 
• Communal electorate 
• Specific electorate. 

2. Organisations and rights of provincial councils: 

An amendment in the number of members was made under this act. This number was fixed between 30 to 50. Four types of members were kept in the provincial legislative councils 

• nominated members 
• nominated government members, 
• nominated non – government members 
• Ex – office members. 

An approval from the governor or lieutenant governor was essential for the bills passed by the legislative councils.