686 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(a) the grants so made by the Assembly, and
(b) the expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State but not exceeding in any case the amount shown in the statement previously laid before the House or Houses.
(2) No amendment shall he proposed to any such Bill in the I louse or either House of the Legislature of the State which will have the effect of varying the amount or altering the destination of any grant so made or of varying the amount of any expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State, and the decision of the person presiding as to the amendments which are admissible under this clause shall be final.
(3) Subject to the provisions of the next two succeeding articles no money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund of the State except under appropriation made by law passed in accordance with the provisions of this article’.”
Mr. President : There is no other amendment to this article,
[The motion was adopted. Article 179, as amended, was added to the Constitution.]
ARTICLE 180
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir I move :
“That for article 180, the following article be substituted :—
‘180(1) The Governor shall—
(a) if the amount authorised by any law made in accordance with the provisions of article 179 of this Constitution to be Supplementary expended for a particular service for the current financial year is additional or found to be insufficient for the purposes of that year or when a need excess grants. has arisen during the current financial year for supplementary or additional expenditure upon some new service not contemplated in the annual financial statement for that year, or (b) if any money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted for that service and for that year, cause to be laid before the House or the Houses of the Legislature of the State another statement showing the estimated amount of that expenditure or cause to be presented to the Legislative Assembly of the State a demand for such excess, as the case may be.
(2) The provisions of the last three preceding articles shall have effect in relation to any such statement and expenditure or demand and also to any law to be made authorising the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of the State to meet such expenditure or the grant in respect of such demand as they have effect in relation to the annual financial statement and the expenditure mentioned therein or to a demand for a grant and the law to be made for the authorisation of appropriation of moneys out of the consolidated Fund of the State to meet such expenditure or grant.’”
Article 180, as amended, was added to the constitution
Amendment was adopted
ARTICLE 181
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That for article 181. the following article be substituted :
Votes on account, votes 181. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained on credit and exceptional in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, the grants. Legislative Assembly of a state shall have power.
*CAD, Vol. VIII, 10th June 1949, pp. 786-87. † Ibid., pp. 787-88.