DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 965
Shri J. R. Kapoor : So, with your permission, I should like first to move No. 95 of list No. 2. As a matter of fact, I had in my original notice given it as an amendment to amendment No. 3 of Dr. Ambedkar, but here it has been given as an independent amendment. That has been done by the office for the sake of facility probably. I am mentioning this only to avoid any objection from any quarter that No. 95 is not an amendment to the amendment of Dr. Ambedkar. I beg to move :
(i) For clause 2, substitute :
“2. Application of Code. —This Code applies to all the citizens of India that is Bharat, who after attaining the age of majority declare in writing that they shall be governed by this Code, and get such declaration registered in accordance with rules prescribed for the purposes by the Central Government:
Provided that the provisions of Part II relating to marriage and divorce shall apply to such declarant only when both the bride and the bridegroom before the marriage, or both the husband and wife after the marriage, make such a declaration.”
Then, in the same context, I would ask your permission to move amendment No. 97 in list No. 2, I beg to move:
(ii) In the amendment proposed by the Hon. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, printed as No. 3, after part (2), insert:
“(3) After sub-clause (3), the following new sub-clause be inserted, namely:—
‘(4) This code or any part or parts thereof also apply to any other person who after attaining the age of majority declares in writing that he shall be governed by this Code, or any part or parts thereof as the case may be, and get such declaration registered in accordance with rules prescribed for the purposes by the Central Government:
Provided that the provisions of Part II relating to marriage and. divorce shall apply to such declarant only when both the bride and the bridegroom before the marriage, or both the husband and wife after the marriage, have made such a declaration.’ ”
I also beg to move:
(iii) In the amendment proposed by the Hon. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, printed as No. 3, in part (l)(ii) of the proposed amendment to sub-clause
(1) of clause 2, after “Sikh religion” add :
“or to any other religion or faith except Muslim, Christian, Parsi, or Jew religion.”