216 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
248 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948
(6) After considering any report made to him by the Commission the President shall, subject as herein- after provided, make orders in accordance with the report,
(7) If upon consideration of the Commission’s 5 report the President is of opinion that anything therein contained involves a substantial question of law. he shall refer the question to the Supreme Court under article 119 of this Constitution and on receipt of the opinion of the Supreme Court thereon shall, 10 unless the Supreme Court has agreed with the Com- mission’s report, return the report to the Commission together with the opinion and the Commission shall thereupon make such modifications in the report as may be necessary to bring it in accord with such 15 opinion and present the report as so modified to the President.
(8) Effect shall be given, in any State affected, to any order made under this article by the President, and any Act of the Legislature of a State which is 20 repugnant to the order shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void.
(9) The President, on application made to him by the Government of any State affected, may at any time, if a Commission appointed as aforesaid so 25 recommend, vary any order made under this article.
Interference 241. If it appears to the President that the with water interests of any State for the time being specified in supplies of Part II of the First Schedule, or of any of the States in inhabitants of such a State, in the water from any 30 Part II of the natural source of supply in any State for the time First Sche- being specified in Part I or Part III of the First dule. Schedule have been or are likely to be affected pre- judicially by—
(a) any executive action or legislation taken or 35 passed, or proposed to be taken or passed; or
(b) the failure of any authority to exercise any of their powers,
with respect to the use, distribution or control of 40 water from that source, he may, if he thinks fit, refer the matter to a Commission appointed in accordance with the provisions of the last preceding article and