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* APPOINTMENT OF STATUTORY LAW REVISION COMMITTEE
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Minister for Law): Mr. Chairman, I may at once say that the object of the Mover is quite laudable and that he has my full sympathy in the Motion that he has made. Sir, there is no doubt that periodical revisions of law in a modern society is an absolute necessity. When a popular Legislature engages itself in the task of legislation, touching every aspect of the society which it governs, there are bound to be created certain problems, which it is necessary for some expert legal body to examine and to rectify. First of all, it happens that a draftsman in order to put an idea in the form of a law suggests certain phraseology, which he thinks is appropriate and complete enough to embody the intention of the Legislature. In a certain stage the Judiciary and the Members of the profession find that the phraseology used by the draftsman is mistaken and does not carry the intent which the Legislature had. That problem therefore becomes a problem which somebody has got to look into and rectify to bring it in consonance with the original intention. It often happens that when a Legislature is engaged in of course of legislation over an extensive period certain inconsistencies unconciously creep in. It is not always possible either for the draftsman or for the legislature to examine every piece of legislation that is brought before it with a view to find out whether that piece of legislation is consistent with other legislation which has preceeded it. Therefore in course of time these inconsistencies accumulate. They trouble lawyers, they trouble judges and they also trouble the litigating public. It also often happens that in modern time when a legislature is so busy that it is unable
C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, 2nd December 1947, p. 1103-05.