द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

THE WHITE PAPER : 317 3. Any matter affecting relations between His Majesty or the Governor-General and any foreign Prince or State. In the event of conflict between a rule so made by the Governor-General and any rule made by the Chamber, the former will prevail and the latter will, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void. From the above it will be clear that in order to nullify the effect of ‘responsibility of the executive to the Legislature’ —not only have numerous reservations been made in the matter of responsibility, but the powers of the Legislature have been severely curtailed. The net result is that the Federal Legislature will be more helpless than the Indian Legislature of to-day and the Governor-General of the future will be more powerful than the Governor-General of to-day. The Governor-General will cause a statement of the estimated revenue and expenditure of the Federation, together with a statement of all proposals for the appropriation of those revenues, to be laid, in respect of every financial year, before both Chambers of the Legislature. Proposals for appropriation of revenues will not be submitted to the vote of either Chamber of the Legislature if they relate to heads of expenditure like—Interests, Sinking Fund Charges, Expenditure fixed by the Constitution Act, etc., salary and allowances of the Governor-General, of Ministers, of Coun- sellors, of the Financial Adviser, etc., expenditure required for the Reserved Departments, etc., salaries and pensions of the Judges of the Federal or Supreme Court, etc., salaries and pensions payable to, or to the departments of, certain members of the Public Services, etc.¹ The statement of proposals for appropriation will specify those additional proposals whether votable or non-votable, which the Governor- General regards as necessary for the discharge of any of his special responsibilities. The proposals for the appropriation ¹ In the light of legislative experience, the expectation or rather ap- prehension is that the non-votable items will cover about 80 per cent. of the total expenditure. The White Paper provides that the Governor-General will decide which item is non-votable as falling under one of these heads.