On 17^th November 1948 Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [Bengal General] spoke at the Constituent Assembly as follows;

I read out the Clause – unless the context otherwise requires General Clauses Act, 1897, shall apply for interpretation of the Constitution. The Government of India Act was controlled in this respect by the UK Interpretation Act, 1889, and this Clause [2] of Article 303 is similar to that provision in the Government of India Act, it therefore follows that interpretation of this Constitution we should have regard to the General Clauses Act and the General Clauses Act definitely provides for this thing that the words from time to time need not repeated again and again. If we say that the President can give a ruling on the points of order it implies that he can give the ruling as and when the occasion arises from time to time so a practical life and a daily Drafting of Statute, we find it as an invariable rule that the phrase is not repeated here and there and now and again in this Constitution itself the words from time to time do not appear everywhere the House will see that in Article 2 line 1 the expression from time to time appear. Parliament may from time to time do certain things but coming to Article 3 we merely find “Parliament may by law— and no from time to time occurs here. There are numerous other places that the words from time to time in a similar context do not appear. I submit that the Drafting should be uniform if in one place we introduce the phrase from time to time and we do not introduce it in another analogous place – the argument may be made that is one place the power may be exercised from time to time and in other place it may not be exercised from time to time it is this reason that I say that there should be some uniformity in the matter Drafting, the words from time to time must be excluded but if they have to be introduced at all they’ll got to be introduced in all other similar phrases.

Comment: Importance of the deployment of words and phrases in statutes in government notification is vital importance and the Speaker as learned he was kind enough to bring out this idea.