12 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
margin obviously you want to use a larger piece of paper. Since the war started this device was adopted just for the purpose of economising paper. I do not think there is any violation of the principles relating to drafting nor any violation of any law with regard to marginal notes. As a matter of fact marginal notes are unnecessary and need not be printed.
Shri Suresh Chandra Majumdar (West Bengal: General): There is such a thing as “inner margin” note which does not waste paper.
- Mr. Speaker : Amendment (by Shri M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar) moved:
“That in part (c) of clause 2 of the Bill, after the word ‘Province’ wherever it occurs the words ‘or a State’ be inserted.”
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Minister for Law): As the amendment moved by my friend Mr. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar raises a question of law, it is only right and proper that I should take the responsibility upon myself to meet the point that arises out of his amendment. No one can deny that the object underlying the amendment of Mr. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar is a very laudable one. A Bill like this which deals with the nursing profession and tries to regularize and establish that profession on a footing which would gain the confidence of all those who take service from the nurses and that it should be extended to the whole of India. I say, is a very laudable thing. But unfortunately, situated as we are, and governed as we are by the Government of India Act, 1935, as adapted, I am afraid it will not be possible to accept his amendment because I have no doubt that his amendment would make the Bill ultra vires of the Legislature. Sir, to explain my point I should like to state to the House that for the moment the States are linked with the Union of India in two different ways. The one way by which they are linked is what is called the standstill agreement which has been made between the Union of India and the various Indian States. The second link by
- C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, 9th December 1947, pp. 1480-82.