154 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Dr. Ambedkar : It will be initiated long before so that the final order of Parliament shall be passed not after twenty days ; twenty days is the period that has been given. Government will no doubt initiate whatever changes are necessary.
Mr. Speaker : I do not know. I thought that it would be a rather difficult matter. It is just possible that the House may be engaged with important business and it may not pass the necessary order before twenty days.
Dr. Ambedkar : The House will then have to give precedence to this.
Mr. Speaker : What I was considering about this was that we might say “and shall be subject to such modifications as Parliament may make on a motion made within twenty days from the date on which the Order is so laid.”
Dr. Ambedkar : I am prepared to accept it.
An. hon. Member : Parliament may not be in session.
Mr. Speaker : Therefore, what I was suggesting to the Law Minister was that twenty days will be counted from the time of laying it when the House is in session and the only condition should be that a motion is made within twenty days.
- Shri Ramalingam Chettiar (Madras) : I have a little doubt as between clauses 12 and 13. Clause 12 says that the President may alter the order he has passed already. Clause
13 says that it may be modified by the Parliament. In the interval what is going to happen ? Is the order passed by the President to be effective or is it to be only provisional.
Dr. Ambedkar : It is provisional because the final authoirty is with Parliament.
Shri Ramalingam Chettiar : You do not say so. The section as it stands says that it is a final order subject to modification and not that it is a provisional order. The order becomes effective immediately it is passed. It may be modified by the Parliament afterwards.
- P. D., Vol. 4, Part II, 20th April 1950, pp. 3074-75.