856 The question is: Was the delegation of such sweeping discretionary power to pick and choose laws made by other legislatures to operate elsewhere and to apply them to the territories in question within the competence of the Central Legislature ? In Jatindra Nath Gupta vs The Province of Bihar (1), which has led to this reference, the Federal Court of India held by a majority (Kania C.J., Mahajan and Mukher jea JJ.) that the proviso to sub section (3) of section 1 of the Bihar Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1937, pur porting to authorise the Provincial Government, on cer tain conditions which are not material here, to extend by notification, the operation of the Act for a further speci fied period after its expiry with or without modifications amounted to a delegation of legislative power and as such was beyond the competence of the legislature.