The Committee has not been able to finalize its recommendations in regard to several other matters, such as financial allocations, nomenclature, qualifications of the Head of the State, etc.
The recommendations of the Basic Principles Committee are accordingly presented to the Assembly in the form of an interim report. As envisaged in the terms of reference of this Committee, only the basic principles have been dealt with.
The recommendations of the Committee are given in Annexure II and III. The recommendations given in Annexure II cover the following field:
(1) Type of Federation;
(2) General features of the Federal Constitution;
(3) Powers and functions of the Legislatures;
(4) The Head of the State, his power and functions;
(5) Provision for residuary powers;
(6) Provision in case of conflict of Legislation; and
(7) Division of administrative, including financial powers.
Annexure III deals with the distribution of various subjects amongst the Centre and the Provinces for the purpose of Legislation and comprises the following lists, namely:
(1) List of powers to be assigned to the Federal Legislature;
(2) List of powers to be assigned to the Legislatures of the Provinces:
(3) Concurrent List.
The Committee has appointed Mr. Zahid Husain, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, as an expert to examine the question of financial allocations between the Centre and the Provinces.
The Basic Principles Committee has also appointed a special Committee consisting of Dr. Mahmud Hussain as convener and Dr. I. H. Qureshi and Dr. Maulvi Abdul Haq as members to report on appropriate nomenclature.
Chairman,
Basic Principles Committee.
September 7, 1950.
