Errors in Bills in Parliament

By Vijay Kumar

YESTERDAY in the Lok Sabha, an honourable Member brought to the notice of the Government the errors in the copies of Bills given to Members. He said,

I would like to bring to the knowledge of the hon. Law Minister the fact that the Bill which has been circulated contains a lot of errors in the annexure about the amendment they are making..

The parts which are going to be modified or omitted are not found in this Bill. Some Sections of the Act are also not found in the Annexure circulated along with the Bill.

I would like to inform the hon. Minister also that of late, the Bills which are circulated to the Members contain many errors and omissions. Some of them are corrected by way of corrigenda which is again followed by another corrigenda for correcting errors. The new Members find it very difficult to understand the provisions of the Bill and the purpose of the amendment which is sought to be made.

Hence, I would request the hon. Law Minister to circulate Bills without errors and also print the complete Bill with complete bare Act which will be amended so that reading and understanding the Bill will become easier for the Members.

The babus may find this kind of interference by parliamentarians in law making, very inconvenient.