38 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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* PROVINCIAL INSOLVENCY (AMENDMENT) BILL
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Minister for Law): Sir, I move :
“That the Bill further to amend the Provincial Insolvency Act,
1920, be continued.”
Mr. Speaker : Motion moved :
“That the Bill further to amend the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920, be continued ”
Shri Raj Krishna Bose (Orissa: General): I would like to know if this Bill also was referred to a Select Committee ?
Mr. Speaker: It was only introduced.
Shri K. Santhanam (Madras : General): It can be newly introduced. What is meant by ‘continuation’ ? Only if it has gone through the other stages of discussion or Select Committee there is a purpose in having a motion for its continuation. It can as well be newly introduced.
Mr. Speaker: I would invite the Honourable Member’s attention to the provisions of sub-clause (2) of section 30 of the Government of India Act, 1935, as adapted :
“A Bill which, immediately before the establishment of the Dominion, was pending at the Legislative Assembly of the Indian Legislature may, subject to any provision to the contrary which may be included in rules made by the Dominion Legislature under section 38 of this Act, be continued in the Dominion Legislature as if the proceedings take with reference to the Bill in the said Legislative Assembly had been taken in the Dominion Legislature.”
So the time and expenditure incurred in the previous stages—publication etc.—are now dispensed with. That is the point in continuing the Bill.
- C.A. (Leg.) D. Vol. I, 17th November 1947, pp. 40-41.