802 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
governed by this Code, and gets such declaration registered in accordance with rules prescribed for the purpose by the Central Government.”
Mr. Speaker : Amendments moved :
- For clause 2, substitute:
“2. Application of Code. —(1) This Code applies to all Hindus.
(2) The expression ‘ Hindu’ in this Code shall, unless otherwise provided, mean a citizen of India.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Special Marriage Act, 1872 (III of 1872), this Code shall apply to Hindus, as defined in that Act, and whose marriages have not been solemnized under the provisions of that Act prior to the commencement of this Code.”
- For clause 2, substitute:
“2. This Code applies to all Indians irrespective of their religion, caste or creed.”
- For clause 2, substitute:
“2. Subject to the provisions of section 1 this Code applies—
(a) to all persons who are Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs by religion ;
(b) to any other person who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsee, or a Jew by religion ;
(c) to every woman who married any person who was not a Muslim, Christian, Parsee or a Jew by religion ;
(d) to any child legitimate or illegitimate one of whose parents was a person who was not a Muslim, Christian, Parsee or a Jew by religion ;
(e) to a convert to any religion except the Muslim, Christian, Parsee or Jew by religion.”
- For clause 2, substitute:
“2. Application of Code. —This Code applies to all the citizens of India that is Bharat, irrespective of their caste, creed and irrespective of their belonging to or professing any religion.”
- In clause 2,—
(1) in sub-clause (1),—
(i) in part (a), for “Hindus, that is to say, all persons professing the Hindu religion” substitute “persons who are Hindus by religion” ;