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other day on the provisions of the Bill is concerned, I did not find that the House was in any way opposed to that part of the Bill. Therefore, having regard to this position, I do not think there is any necessity for Mr. Kamath to insist upon his amendment to send the Bill to a Select Committee. It is now clear that the time and the date that he had fixed in his amendment has already passed and consequently the ground under his amendment has already been covered but apart from that if I had been called upon to speak on that day on his amendment, I would no doubt have said that it was not possible for me to accept the amendment in view of the fact that the provisions of the Bill relating to the Ordinance were so peremptory that without delay they had to have their legal form which the Constitution requires us to give. I therefore plead that the Bill may be taken into consideration without referring it to a Select Committee and that the amendments which I have proposed in the Supplementary List No. 6 to the Revised Consolidated List may be taken into consideration.
Mr. Speaker : I put the motion to the House. I believe after a long discussion, it is not now necessary to go on with further discussion of this Bill. I shall put it clause by clause and instead of having a general discussion hon. Members will get an opportunity of having their say when the clauses come before the House. Let us now specifically go to the very clauses to which Members may have any objection.
* Mr. Speaker : As there are proposed changes in the various clauses, hon. Members will be keeping a watch so that I may not pass over any amendment.
Clause 2.—( Amendment of the long title )
Amendment made:
For clause 2, substitute the following:
“ 2. Amendment of the long title, Act XLIII of 1950. — In the long title of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (hereinafter referred
- P. D., Vol. 7, Part II, 21st December 1950, p. 2212.