The Ordinance did not itself set up any of the special courts but provided by sub section (3) of section 1 that the Ordinance "shall come into force in any Province only if the Provincial Government, being satisfied of the existence of an emergency arising from any disorder within the Province or from a hostile attack on India or on a country neighbour ing on India or from the imminence of such an attack, by notification in the official gazette, declare it to be in force in the Province and shall cease to be in force when such notification is rescinded." In view of this last provision it was contended that the Ordinance was invalid either because the language showed that the Governor General notwithstanding the preamble did not consider that an emergency existed but was making provi sion in case one should arise in ; (2) 5 I.A. 178, (3) 120 932 future, or else because the section amounted to what was called "delegated legislation" by which the Governor General without legal authority sought to pass the deci sion whether an emergency existed to the Provincial Govern ment instead of deciding it for himself.