16 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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INDIAN NURSING COUNCIL BILL
- The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The position is, as I said on the last occasion this legislation refers to entry No. 16 in the Concurrent Legislative List. The executive authority with regard to the legislation framed under the Concurrent Legislative List does not vest in the Central Government. Rule making has been interpreted to be in exercise of the executive authority and the Central Government does not possess that executive authority and therefore, they cannot make the rules. The rules may be made by somebody else. If my Honourable friend objects to the President making the rule, he may suggest some other method to making them, though he certainly cannot make any amendment whereby the responsibility or the authority for making the rules shall be vested in the Central Legislature. Section 8(1) of the Government of India Act and section 49(2) of the Government of India Act of 1939 are quite clear on this point.
Shri K. Santhanam : Here again, I find that it is rather a curious law that has been expounded the Central Government cannot make rules. A nominee of the Central Government can make rules but not the Central Government. The present proposal is that the President should be nominated by the Central Government and he may make rules. After all it is a Council of All India and I cannot see any authority in the Government of India to make rules. It is only so far as Provincial Councils are concerned that directions cannot be issued. I therefore think that the law as expounded is altogether wrong. The Central Government should have the power. I, therefore, suggest that the amendment should be accepted.
- C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, 8th December 1947, p. 1486.