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.