Unit 4 of Drafting, Pleading and Conveyancing – III (syllabus: Module IV — drafting bills and amendment bills, and drafting judgments and orders). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- How does a drafter prepare a legislative scheme before writing a single clause of a Bill?
- What is the introductory apparatus of a Bill, and what does each part do?
- How are the short title, extent, commencement and definitions drafted in Chapter I of a Bill?
- What are the rules of composition for the body of a Bill, and when is a proviso used?
- What goes into the final provisions of a Bill, and what may not be delegated?
- What is a Statement of Objects and Reasons, and what else accompanies a Bill?
- How is an amendment Bill drafted, and what are its standard formulae?
- What must a civil judgment contain, and how does a criminal judgment differ?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- General Clauses Act, 1897, s. s. 5(1)
- General Clauses Act, 1897, s. ss. 6, 6A and 24
- General Clauses Act, 1897, s. s. 6A
- Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. Order XX rules 1 to 6, read with ss. 258, 392, 393, 395, 396, 403 and 404 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023