992 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
274-B. Parliament may, by law enacted by virtue of powers conferred by this
Power of Parliament to Constitution, impose such restrictions on the impose restrictions on trade, freedom of trade, commerce or intercourse commerce and intercourse between one State and another or within any by law. part of the territory law of India as may be
required in the public interest.
274-C. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in article 274-B of this Constitution
neither parliament nor the Legislature of Restrictions of the a State shall have power to make any law legislative powers of the giving or authorising the giving of preference Union and of the States with regard to the trade to one State over another or making any and commerce. discrimination or authorising the making of any discrimination between one State and
another by virtue of any entry relating to trade or commerce in any of the
Lists in the Seventh Schedule.
(2) Nothing in clause (1) of this article shall prevent Parliament from making
any law giving any preference or making any discrimination as aforesaid if it
is declared by such law that it is necessary to do so for the purpose of dealing
with a situation arising from scarcity of goods in any part of the territory of
India.
274-D. Notwithstanding anything contained in article 274 or article 274-C of this Restrictions on trade, commerce and Constitution, the legislature of a intercourse among State. State may, by law—
(a) impose on goods which have been imported from other States any tax
to which similar goods manufactured or produced in that State are
subject, so, however, as not to discriminate between goods so imported
and goods so manufactured or produced; and
(b) impose such reasonable restrictions on the freedom of trade, commerce
or intercourse with or within that State as may be required in the public
interest:
Provided that no Bill or amendment for the purpose of clause (b) of this
article shall be introduced or moved in the legislature of the State nor
shall any Ordinance be promulgated for the purpose by the Governor
or Ruler of the State without the previous sanction of the President.
274-E. Parliament may by law appoint such authority as it considers appropriate for carrying out the purposes of articles Appointment of authority 274-A, 274-B, 274-C and 274-D of this to carry out the provisions Constitution, and confer on authority so of articles 274A to 274D. appointed such powers and such duties as it thinks necessary.’ ”
Sir, all that I need do at this stage is to inform the House that originally the articles dealing with freedom of trade and commerce were scattered in different parts of the Draft Constitution. One article found its place in the list of Fundamental Rights, namely, article 16, which said that trade and commerce, subject to any law made by Parliament, shall be free throughout the territory of India. The other articles, namely, 243, 244 and 245 were included in some other part of the Draft Constitution. It was found in the course of discussion that a large number of members of the House