PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 111
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PART C STATES (LAWS) BILL
- The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): I beg to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide for the extension of laws to certain Part C States.
Mr. Speaker : The question is:
“That leave be granted to introduce a Bill to provide for the extension of laws to certain Part C States.”
The motion was adopted.
Dr. Ambedkar : I introduce the Bill.
- The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar) : I beg to move :
“That the Bill to provide for the extension of laws to certain“ Part C States, be taken into consideration.”
It is perhaps necessary that I should offer to the House some explanation as to why this Bill is restricted to certain Part C States. The position is this, that we have altogether about ten Part C States mentioned in Schedule I of the Constitution. Those ten States fall into three groups. There are Coorg, Ajmer and Delhi which were Chief Commissioners’ Provinces now designated as Part C States, and which had come into existence long before the Constitution. Consequently, so far as these three States were concerned, the question of the extension of Central laws does not arise because they applied at the time when they were enacted.
Then there is the second group of Part C States which are Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, Bhopal and Cutch. With regard to them, it was only last year that this Legislature passed a law extending the Central Acts to them. This Bill is confined to three Part C States, namely, Vindhya Pradesh, Tripura
*P. D., Vol. 4, Part II, 5th April 1950, p. 2551.
**Ibid., 11th April 1950, pp. 2777-84.