PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 385
amendment moved on the floor of the House. What about the last part of the clause ? It says :
“………each of the said Acts (and Regulations, if this is accepted) shall, subject to the power of any competent legislature to repeal or amend it, continue in force.”
So far as .these Regulations are concerned, they cannot be repealed or amended by any Legislature when there is no Legislature in Hyderabad. There also, it should be altered by saying ‘legislature or other competent authority’.
Dr. Ambedkar: Whatever legislature there is, it will have the right to amend.
Mr. Speaker: There is confusion about the meaning of the word * legislature’. A legislature is conceived as consisting of a Chamber with elected representatives and so on. I believe the legislature here means, the Rajpramukh who is himself the legislature. That I think is the constitutional meaning.
Dr. Ambedkar: Yes.
Mr. Speaker: If that is so, there is no difficulty.
The question is :
In page 2,
(i) line 35, after “Acts” insert “and Regulations”.
(ii) line 36, after “Acts” insert “and Regulations”.
(iii) line 39, after “Acts” insert “Regulations” .
(iv) line 42, after “Acts” insert “Regulations”.
The motion was adopted.
Shri Kamath: Is it not necessary to put this clause, as amended, to the House ?
Mr. Speaker: Is it really necessary ? The position will be like this. “That the Bill, as amended, be passed” will be the motion I am going to put to the House. There is no particular clause again to be put to the House. The hon. Member will note that clause 5 was voted upon and the House has assented to it. Votes were taken separately on that clause. This amendment comes in as a consequential amendment.
Mr. Speaker: Under rule 94.