{"id":244599,"date":"2023-05-26T20:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=244599"},"modified":"2023-05-27T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:32:20","slug":"an-ordinance-its-constitutionality-and-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/an-ordinance-its-constitutionality-and-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"An ordinance, its constitutionality, and scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source-<\/strong> The post is based on the article \u201cAn ordinance, its constitutionality, and scrutiny\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 26th May 2023.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issues pertaining to federalism<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Constitutional issues related to NCT of Delhi<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>Recently, the President of India exercised legislative power to promulgate \u201cThe Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023\u201d. The ordinance negates a Constitution Bench judgement of the Supreme Court of India<\/p>\n

What are points given by SC while interpreting Article 239AA(3)(a)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Legislative Assembly of the NCTD has jurisdiction over entries in List II and List III,<\/strong> except for expressly excluded entries of List II.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The executive power of NCTD is co-extensive with its legislative powe<\/strong>r. It shall extend to all matters with respect to which it has power to legislate. The Union of India has executive power only over three entries in List II. .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Consequently, executive power over \u201cservices\u201d (entry 41) <\/strong>can be exercised exclusively by the Government of the NCTD.<\/p>\n

What are the issues related to constitutionality of ordinance?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ordinance has inserted entry 41 of List II into Article 239AA(3)(a<\/strong>). Therefore, it has expanded the scope of excepted matter from three\u00a0 to four.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This needs for amending Article 239AA(3)(a)<\/strong> of the Constitution. The power conferred on Parliament under Article is to make fresh laws and not to amend Article 239AA(3)(a<\/strong>) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Article 239AA(7)(a)<\/strong> confers power on Parliament\u00a0 to make laws for giving effect to or supplementing the provisions <\/strong>contained in various clauses of Article 239AA. Such a power cannot be used to amend Article 239AA(3)(a) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

As per Article 239AA(7)(b), Parliament\u2019s law making under Article 239AA(7)(a)<\/strong> shall not be considered an amendment of the Constitution. Therefore, altering the scope of Article 239AA(3)(a) requires constitutional amendment <\/strong>under Article 368.<\/p>\n

Consequently, the ordinance to expand the scope of excepted matters in Article 239AA(3)(a<\/strong>) is void. It amounts to a colourable exercise of power<\/strong>. Article 123<\/strong> is no substitute for Article 368.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besides, when the Supreme Court interprets the law, the same is binding on all courts and authorities<\/strong> in India in terms of Articles 141 and 144<\/strong>, respectively. Articles 141 and 144 cannot be negated by Article 123 without a constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n

The aid and advice <\/strong>of the Union Council of Ministers to the President could not override Article 144.<\/strong> The basis of the Court judgement is Article 239AA(3)(a). To alter this basis, a constitutional amendment<\/strong> is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source- The post is based on the article \u201cAn ordinance, its constitutionality, and scrutiny\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 26th May 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Issues pertaining to federalism Relevance– Constitutional issues related to NCT of Delhi News- Recently, the President of India exercised legislative power to promulgate \u201cThe Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi… Continue reading An ordinance, its constitutionality, and scrutiny<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-244599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}