1050 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. President : Then I put article 300B as proposed by Dr. Ambedkar.
(Article 300B was adopted and added to the Constitution)
EIGHTH SCHEDULE
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That the Eighth Schedule be deleted.”
Mr. President : There are certain amendments to the Eighth Schedule. They would not arise now.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : No. Sir, they would not arise.
(Schedule Eight was deleted from the Constitution).
ARTICLE 303 —(contd.)
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in clause (2) of article 303, the following words be added at the end : —
‘as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of the Legislature of the Dominion of India.’ ”
The reference is to the General Clauses Act.
Shri Jaspat Roy Kapoor : I wonder whether there is any real necessity for making this. Even if it is, I do not know how far it would be correct if you have it like this “as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of the Legislature of the Dominion of India”. Because, hereafter when the Constitution has come into force, there shall be no law which has been made by ‘the Legislature of the Dominion of India’. The Dominion of India will cease then and all the Acts in force within the Dominion of India will automatically become Acts of the Union.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The point is this that the General Clauses Act applies to Acts, Regulations and Ordinances. It is therefore necessary to say to which class of these laws this will apply. That is the reason why this amendment is proposed.
Shri Jaspat Roy Kapoor : What I mean to submit is that after the Constitution comes into force there shall be no law in existence which could be said to be a law of the ‘ Dominion of India’. So I think our purpose would be fully served if we say “ as it applies for the interpretation of any existing Act.”
*CAD, Vol. IX, 17th September 1949, p. 1640.
† Ibid., p. 1641.