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BA LLB (BLS LLB) 5 Years · Sem 2
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This edition revised 30 October 2026.
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Duration 2½ hours · Total marks 75 · 22 questions answered
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Q.1
Q.1: Answer in one or two sentences, any 6 of 8
12 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What are legislative materials?[2]
Answer
Legislative materials are the documents made by the legislature and by the bodies to which it gives law-making power. They also include the record of how a law came to be made. They fall into two groups.
1. The law itself.
- the Constitution;
- Acts of Parliament and of the State Legislatures;
- Ordinances made by the President or a Governor when the legislature is not sitting;
- subordinate legislation made under an Act: rules, regulations, orders, bye-laws, schemes and notifications published in the Official Gazette.
2. The legislative history. These are used as external aids to interpret a statute:
- the Bill as introduced, with its Statement of Objects and Reasons;
- reports of Select and Joint Committees;
- reports of the Law Commission or other commissions on which the Bill was based;
- the parliamentary debates.
How courts use the second group. In Commissioner of Income-Tax v. Sodra Devi, AIR 1957 SC 832, the word "individual" in the Income-tax Act was unclear. The majority looked at the Income-Tax Enquiry Report and the Statement of Objects and Reasons. They showed the mischief the law was meant to cure, and the Court read the word accordingly. Such materials help the court find the purpose of a law; they cannot override its clear words.
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