1196 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : Why were they placed before the Constituent Assembly if they were not of a constitutional character?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The short title is quite different from the purport of the Act.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : The question is whether the right of a litigant to appeal to the Privy Council could have been taken away without an amendment to the Government of India Act, 1935.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The short title of the next Act was the Central Government and Legislature Amendment Act, 1949. that Act sought to amend the India (Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946 which is an Act of Parliament and not the Government of India Act, 1935. The other Act was the abolition of Privy Council jurisdiction Act, 1949.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : But the earlier Act to which my honourable Friend has referred, namely, the Amendment to the Central Legislature Act was itself an amendment of the Government of India Act.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : No, no, that is not, there was a separate Act passed by Parliament called the India (Central Government and Legislature) Act 1946. This amendment was an amendment to that Act. That Act was outside the Government of India Act, 1935.
Shri R. K. Sidhva : Perhaps Dr. Ambedkar will remember that the amendment to the Act from Cotton Seeds to Cotton was really an amendment to the Government of India Act, to which he has made no mention.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : This would mean a sixth Act no doubt but the short title is something quite different to the number of the Acts. We are discussing the short titles.
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari (Madras : General) : This is a matter of nomenclature and in fact in the previous Acts amended by Parliament, they have given different names for Acts which in purport amended the Government of India Act, such as the India Burma Emergency Powers Act, 1942. The matter of nomenclature need not be pursued to its logical and bitter end. I suggest the House to proceed with the consideration of the Bill.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Is there any Act No. IV?
Mr. President : There seems to be.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : There is.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I have not got it.