DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 981
moved at later stages, for once again hon. Members will have to apply their minds and ....
Pandit Malaviya : But in view of the special circumstances that exist now...
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Of course, during the course of the discussion, for the purpose of bringing about an agreement or some such thing, an amendment may be moved, and in that case the matter will always be considered. But with respect to new amendments I suppose the House will agree that for the reason that they will throw open the discussion once again, they should not be allowed.
Khawaja Inait Ullah (Bihar) : Would not an amendment that goes against the Constitution be out of order ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The hon. Member may refer me to the points that are considered as out of order or beyond the scope of the House at the time the matter arises.
Shri M. Naik (Orissa) : If an amendment moved stands in the names of two or more Members, will that amendment be taken as having been moved by only one Member or by all the Members who have given notice of it ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I shall take it that all of them have moved it.
Shri M. Naik : What happens if the hon. Member who moved it remains absent now ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I shall adopt the safer procedure. It is true that more than one Member has given notice of an amendment, and if he is not in his seat, it is open to any other of the hon. Members to move it. The question is, if all the Members are in their seats, whether all of them are to be taken to have moved it. By way of abundant caution we may say that all of them have moved it so that ultimately when there is any question of withdrawing that amendment and the Member who moved it is not in his seat, any of the other Members can withdraw it.
Shri R. K. Chaudhuri: If I want to oppose any of the new amendments now moved when can I do so?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Whenever he rises and is called upon to speak. He is entitled to speak on all the amendments. ( An hon. Member: Of one category ?) We have finished all categories. So far as clause 2 is concerned, I have allowed hon. Members to move all the amendments. Tomorrow I shall try to group them for purposes of