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Joint Committee of Indian Constitutional Reform. Minutes of Evidence take before the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform Unrevised Die Martis 25 Julii 1933

1933

One last question and it is about Article 110 of the proposed White Paper : " It will be outside the competence of the Federal and of the Provincial Legisltures to make any law affecting the Sovereign or the Royal Family the sovereignty or dominion of the Crown over any part of British India." Is there any objection to bringing forward the relations or of the Princes under this section so t [...] May it be assumed that with regard to the Upper House as well as the Lower House as in the case of British-Indian Provinces there will be Appendices attached to the Act indicating the distribution of seats out of the States' quota to the various States?—Yes there must be. [...] Do I understand the Secretary of State to mean that the Act deals with the relationship of the Federation and the States and cannot make an excursion into the relationship of one State with another inter se?—Not over and above the grouing that of course will come into the Act. [...] In view of the fact that the Upper House will have to share resposibility with the Lower House including Federal Legislation and raising fresh taxation and in view of the fact that the Executive will be responsible to both"891 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORa THE 25° Julii 1933.] The Right Hon. [...] I have only two questions to ask: With regard to the list of Federal subjects may I know whether it will be open to the States in the Document of Accession to say that they federate only to the extent of the first 48 items in the common list?—Yes certainly.
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Pages
49
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145197
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