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* INDIAN TARIFF (FOURTH AMENDMENT) BILL
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar) : I am very much surprised that a point like this should have been raised by my hon. friend, Mr. Tyagi, who always in the House has said that he represents the most ignorant class in this country. It is a point which I think baffled many lawyers and I should have thought it was worthwhile for my friend to have left this matter in other hands. Now that the point is raised and you have expressed your own opinion that a point like this is important and must be decided, I propose to offer a few remarks on the subject. While I was listening to Mr. Tyagi’s remarks, I thought he was confusing two different issues which must be kept quite separate. One is whether Parliament can delegate its authority. The second is whether Parliament should. The two are, in my judgment, quite different questions. We must apply very different considerations in coming to a conclusion on either one of them.
I will take the first question whether Parliament can delegate.
Shri J. R. Kapoor (Uttar Pradesh) : That is the only question.
Shri Tyagi : No.
Dr. Ambedkar : No. On that subject, so far as I am concerned, I have not the least doubt that Parliament can delegate its authority to other agencies subject to one condition and that condition is this that Parliament does not by such delegation completely divest itself of the authority to resume back the powers which it has delegated. A delegation for a purpose, a delegation for a time, and a delegation which permits Parliament to resume back their
- P. D., Vol. 6, Part II, 4th December 1950, pp. 1171-76.