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Part II there shall be a High Court, or if there is a High Court that High Court shall be treated as a High Court. Provision is also made in clause
(8) of this article that if there is no High Court and if it is not possible to create a High Court exclusively for any particular area included in States in Part II, it will be open for Parliament to declare that a certain other Court situated in any adjacent area may be treated as a High Court for purposes of that particular area. That is the purpose of this article.
Mr. President : There is no amendment to this article. Does anyone wish to say anything on it ? Then I shall put it to vote.
The question is :
“That new article 213-A stand part of the Constitution.”
The motion was adopted.
Article 213-A. was added to the Constitution.
ARTICLE 214
- Mr . President : Then we will take up amendment No. 52 standing in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move.
“That with reference to amendment No. 2728 of the List of Amendments, for article 214, the following article be substituted :—
‘214. (1) Until Parliament by law otherwise provides, the constitution, powers and functions of the Coorg Legislative Council shall be the same as they were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution.
(2) The arrangements with respect to revenues collected in Coorg and expenses in respect of Coorg shall, until other provision is made in this behalf by the President by order, continue unchanged.’”
There is nothing new in this article except that the two parts in this are separate while they were lumped together in the original article.
(Article 214, was added to the Constitution)
ARTICLE 275
† Mr. President : Then we go to article 275. Amendment No. 111. Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That for article 275, the following article be substituted :—
‘275. (1) If the President is satisfied that a grave emergency exists whereby the security of India or of any part of the territory thereof is Proclamation of threatened, whether by war or external aggression or internal Emergency. disturbance, he may, by Proclamation, make a declaration to that effect.
- CAD, Vol. IX, dated 2nd August 1949, p. 103.
† Ibid., pp. 103-04.