DRAFT CONSTITUTION 489
Mr. Vice-President : Do you want me to put your amendment to vote, Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad, which is identical with the previous one ?
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : No, Sir.
Vice-President : Then I shall put to vote amendment No. 1205.
The question is :
“That to the proviso to article 53. the following be added :—
‘and shall not be entitled to any salary or allowance payable to the Chairman of the Council of States under article 79 of this Constitution’.”
The amendment was adopted.
Article 53, as amended, was adopted and added to the constitution.
ARTICLE 54
- Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Sir, I beg to move :
“That in clause (1) of article 54. for the words ‘date on which’, the words ‘time when’ be substituted.”
(Speech of N.A.)
Mr. Vice-President : ...Amendments Nos. 1211 and 1210 are of similar import but the former is more comprehensive and may be moved.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir. I move :
“That to clause (3) of article 54. the following be added:—
‘and be entitled to such privileges, emoluments and allowances as may be determined by Parliament by law and until provision in that behalf is so made, such privileges, emoluments and allowances as are specified in the Second Schedule’.”
This merely makes good an omission in the Draft Constitution.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. Vice-President, I find that in the amendments that have been moved there are really three points which have been raised. One point which has been raised by my friend Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad relates to time. We all know by now how very meticulous my friend Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad is and he wants to have the Constitution specifically state the time when a President frees himself from office and another persons takes over that office. I do not know whether so much meticulousness is necessary in this Constitution. However, what I find difficult to accept in the amendment which he has moved is that he has not particularised what is system of timing which he has in mind. Is it the Greenwich time, the Standard time, the Bombay or Calcutta time?.........†
*CAD, Vol. VII, 28th December 1948, pp. 1089-92.
†Dots in the original debates indicate interruption.