BRITISH PARLIAMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 13

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

PROGRAMME OF WORK INDIAN CONSTITUTION British Wireless RUGBY, Oct. 18 The programme of work before the British Parliament, which is to reassemble at the end of the present month, will be dominated by the question of Indian constitutional reforms. The Government's bill to give effect to its proposals will overshadow in importance all other legislation. The new session will be opened by the King in State about November 20. It is anticipated that a little over a fortnight will suffice to complete the outstanding legislative work of the present session, and probably it wi.l end on November 16. However, the procedure to be adopted in regard to the publication of the report of the Joint Select Committee of both Houses on the Indian Constitutional Reform Bill will come before the House of Commons when this session is resumed on October 30. The committee's main task is completed, but there still remains an immense amotjnt of detailed work to bo done in connection with the preparation of tho reports and records, for the desirability of making the report available simultaneously in India and Britain lias been recognised. Parliamentary approval for such a course is necessary, however. Accordingly, when Parliament reassembles, a resolution to effect this will be submitted on behalf of tho Government. The publication of the report may be expected toward the end of November and probably it will bo debated soon after in both Houses. The presentation of a bill to give effect to the Government's proposals will follow.