664 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
ARTICLE 206
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move that this article be deleted.
Article 206 was deleted from the Constitution.
ARTICLE 90— Contd.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I would request you now to take the financial article. We may go back to article 90 which was under discussion.
Mr. President : We had a number of amendments to tills article which were moved that day before we adjourned discussion. They are amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 6 standing in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That for sub-clauses (c) and (d) of clause (1) of article 90, the following sub-clauses be substituted :
‘(c) the custody of the Consolidated Fund or the Contingency Fund of India, die payment of moneys into or the withdrawal of moneys from any such fund;
(d) the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India;’”
Sir, Amendment No. 4 is covered by amendment No. 3 and so I am not moving it. Sir, I also move :
“That in sub-clauses (e) and (f) of clause (l) of article 90, for the words ‘revenues of India’, the words ‘Consolidated Fund of India’ be substituted.”
Sir, Amendment No. 5 standing in the name of Pandit Kunzru is also covered and therefore, it is necessary.
Sir, with your permission, I would like at this stage to make a short introductory speech in order to give the House an idea of some of the changes which are not covered by the specific amendments which I have moved just now, but which relate to the changes that have been made in the financial procedure to be observed with regard to financial matters.
The changes that we have made by the various amendments that I have proposed to move in connection with tills matter are these. The first change that has been made is that there shall be no taxation without law. If any levy is to be made upon the people, the sanction must be that of law. That is provided for in article 248 which will come at a later stage. In order to give the House a complete idea of what we are
*CAD, Vol. VIII, 8th June 1949, pp. 721-26.