The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters January 1 1930

Indeed it is stated that the reference to a Select Committee presupposes that the Assembly in which the Bill is introduced and carrying the motion for Select Committee accepts the principle of the Bill. [...] E ven so when the Select Committee to which the Bill is referred changes the principle of the Bill entirely and if this principle affects the religion or religious rites or usages of any class of His Majesty's subjects the previous assent given by the Governor. [...] 84 declares that " the validity of any Act of the Indian Legislature or any local legislature shall not be open to question in any legal proceedings on the ground that the Act affects a provincial subject or a Cetral subject as the case may be and the validity of any Act made by the Governor of a province shall not be so open to question on the ground that it does not relate to a reserved su [...] But even in England where the English Parliament is supreme a Bill requires the Assent of both Houses of Parliament and the consent of the King ; so that when legislation was enacted to make a Bill passed by the House of Commons solely into an Act notwithstanding the refusal of the House of Lords to pass the same when certain conditions are"6n THR CALCUTTA LAW JOURNAL. [...] On the other hand a brief reference to the leading cases on the evolution of the doctrine from the earliest times down to the cases which finally fixed the definition in its present form would have made the concept clear and precise.