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to Part B States. It is for this purpose that this Bill has been brought forward.
Hon. Members will see that to this Bill is added a Schedule giving the list of Acts which it is proposed under the powers given by this Bill to be extended to Part B States. There are altogether 135 Acts, so far as I have computed them, which are sought to be extended to Part B States.
While seeking to extend the Central Acts to Part B States it is felt that these Acts themselves required some small amendment according to the views of the various administrative departments of the Government of India which are working these Acts. Consequently the occasion which now exists for the purpose of extending these 135 Acts is also utilised for the purpose of making certain amendments in these Central Acts, so that when this Bill is passed, not only these Acts will come into operation in Part B States but they will also come into operation in the form in which they are modified by the provisions contained in the various Acts in the Schedule as mentioned therein. I do not think any controversy is likely to arise over the principle of this Bill.
There are one or two omissions which we have discovered since and I propose to move amendments in order to bring them under this Schedule.
Mr. Speaker: Motion moved:
“ That the Bill to provide for the extension of certain laws to Part B States, be taken into consideration. ”
* Dr. Ambedkar: With regard to the point made by my friend from Travancore-Cochin, Shri Sivan Pillay the position is quite easy as I see it. There are some laws which are sought to be extended by this Bill which fall in the Concurrent List. Consequently, it would be open to any State in India to amend these laws in the manner that they wish to do. To take his illustration, namely, the Indian Penal Code, it is quite true that the Indian Penal Code sanctions death as one of the
- P. D., Vol 8, Part II, 9th February 1951, pp. 2669-77.