PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 11
As I say these are various ways of carrying the purpose into effect. That as I said requires time and examination and it is not possible for the Government, besieged as it is with an infinity of problems of all kinds to find time for the work which it will have to do if I were to accept the resolution of Sir Hari Singh Gour with the immediacy with which I believe he has charged it. Therefore, what I would like to suggest is this : that Sir Hari Singh Gour would realise that so far as the ultimate purpose is concerned, there is no difference of opinion between me and him. Both of us are agreed that this is a matter which the Government of India ought to take into consideration. The only difference is when and how, and that is a matter on which he need not press the Government for the immediate issue. Therefore my suggestion is this that as I have given a reply which meets more than half the ground on which he stands, I think he will agree that it will be gracious on his part to withdraw it.
- Mr. Chairman : Amendment (by Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad) moved:
“That in clause 2 of the Bill, in the proposed new section
289B—
(i) the word, figures, letters and brackets ‘57 & 58 Vict., c.
- be omitted; and
(ii) the word, figures, letters, and brackets ‘(57 & 58 Vict., c. 60)’ be inserted in the margin.”
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Minister for Law): I should like to explain the position. I would say that the amendment has no substance in it. The identifying clause may either be in margin or may be in the context of the section itself. All that is necessary is that there should be some identification. Originally it is true that in all the Bills that we have presented to the Assembly, such identification references were in the margin. But recently the printers have adopted the method of giving the references in the very body of the section itself and the purpose is to economise paper. For instance, when you have to give the references in the
- C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, 2nd December 1947, pp. 1199-1200.