Explain the following: (a) How an ordinary bill differs from the Money Bill? (b) Unified concept of Judiciary in India (c) The Power of Judicial Review in India
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(A)Article 110 of the Indian Constitution deals with the definition of ‘Money Bill’. A bill deemed to be money bill if it contains “only provisions dealing with imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax”. An Ordinary Bill can be introduced in any of the Houses of Parliament while money bill can only be introduced in the Lok Sabha.
(B)Indian Judiciary is an integrated and unified system. The Indian Judiciary is organised in a hierarchical form. At the bottom there are numerous Nyaya Panchayats and at the apex there is the Supreme Court. ... Thus, judiciary as an organ of the government presents striking difference from the legislature and the executive.
(C)Judicial Review refers to the power of the judiciary to interpret the constitution and to declare any such law or order of the legislature and executive void, if it finds them in conflict the Constitution of India. ... The Supreme Court of India has the supreme responsibility of interpreting and protecting it.