With regard to the interpretation of the non obstante clause in section 100(l) of the Government of India Act, 1935 Gwyer, C.J. observed: "It is a fundamental assumption that the legislative powers of the Centre and Provinces could not have been intended to be in conflict with one another and, therefore, we must read them together, and interpret or modify the language in which one is expressed by the language of the other." "In all cases of this kind the question before the Court", according to the learned Chief Justice is not "how the two legislative powers are theoretically capable of being construed, but how they are to be construed here and now." The general scheme of the British North America Act, 1867 with regard to the distribution of legislative powers, and the general 167 scope and effect of sections 91 and 92, and their relations to each other were fully considered and commented upon in the case of Citizen Insurance Company 's case, supra.