1310 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
HINDU CODE— contd.
Clause 4.—( Overriding effect of Code ).
- The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): May I submit, Sir, that my motion with respect to clause 4 of the Hindu Code, which was held over, may be put and then the other business may be taken up ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The Hon. Minister wants preference to be given to that Bill with respect to that part of it. The other day the discussion and reply on the clause was over, but just as I was about to put it to the House Hon. Members said it might take a long time and as it was 1-15 p.m. we had to adjourn. We will now finish it.
I will now put the amendment of Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava.
The question is :
That for clause 4, the following be substituted:
“4. Any text rule or interpretation of Hindu Law or any customary usage in force immediately before the commencement of this Code shall have effect with respect to any of the matters not dealt with in this Code.”
The motion was negatived.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Now we come to amendment No. 449.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (Punjab) : I beg to withdraw it. The amendment was, by leave, withdrawn.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: The question is :
That in the amendment proposed by the Hon. Dr. Ambedkar, in part (a) of the proposed clause 4, the words “or any custom or usage” be omitted.
The motion was negatived
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The question is :
That in the amendment proposed by the Hon. Dr. Ambedkar, in the proposed new clause 4,—
(i) in part (a), after the words “dealt with in this Code” the words “after ten years from the commencement of this code” be inserted ; and
(ii) after part (b) the following Explanation be added :
“ Explanation. —Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection ( a ), for a period of ten years from the commencement of this Code, any text, rule or any custom or usage in force, shall have effect.”
*P.D., Vol. XV, Part II 25th September 1951, pp. 3278-3301