“There shall be paid to the President and Deputy President of the Council of States such salaries as may be respectively fixed by Act of the Federal Legislature, and, until provision in that behalf is so made, such salaries as the Governor-General may determine”. The adaptation merely says that in sub-section (4), for “and the Deputy President of the Council of State”, substitute “of the Dominion Legislature”. So the provision remains more or less intact so far as sub-section (4) is concerned, except the change that is contemplated in the nomenclature of the legislatures and the words the Council of State and the Lower House have been removed and the words “the Dominion Legislatures” substituted. So when the entire scheme has been changed and the name Speaker has been wiped out in Section 22 of the Government of India Act, and in the following Section 23, I do not know if it is quite right or legal’ for the name Speaker to be introduced here. It would probably be better to adopt the wording of the original report namely, an officer to preside’, whatever the designation he might get ultimately.
