Joint Committee of Indian Constitutional Reform. Minutes of Evidence take before the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Unrevised Die Jovis 12 Octobris 1933

are further examined as follows: Chairman.] The proposal this morning subject to the convenience of the Comittee and of the Secretary of State is that we should renew our examination of the Secretary of State upon Adminitrative Relations " and that we should then take the next subject " Property Contracts and Suits." Marquess of Zetland.] Will you tell us the numbers of the Proposals [...] Now if that is so I imagine that the phrase " the Governor-General will be empowered " means the GovernoGeneral acting on the advice. of his Ministers so far as Federal purposes outside the reserved subjects are cocerned if you turn to the definition of the expression " Governor-General will bo empowered " at page 39?—As the proposal stands it is at the GovernoGeneral's discretion. [...] Supposing the Ministry does not carry out what the Governor tells them or the Minister in charge ot. the Portfolio does not'--'Chen the valid order in the Province is the order of the Governor. [...] In the field of the special responsibilities the only valid order would he the order of the Governor and the order of the Governor-Gtmeral in the event of a difference oi! opinion of this kind. [...] I want to know whether it will not he the feeling of people in British India that although the Indian States have joined the Federtion the Indian States are in no.way under the authority of the Federal Goernment?—But that would not be the case.