PART D: AMENDMENT OF THE SCHEDULE
- 7. Amendment of the Schedule.
- (1) Parliament may from time to time by law amend by way of addition, variation or repeal any of the provisions ofthis Schedule and, when the Schedule is so amended, any reference to this Schedule in this Constitution shall be construed as a reference to such Schedule as so amended.
- (2) No such law as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall be deemed to be an amendment of this Constitution for the purposes of article 368.
This provision draws an important procedural line: Parliament may alter the Schedule through addition, variation, or repeal, while that law is not treated as a constitutional amendment for the stated purpose. The wording matters because it separates the mechanism for maintaining the Schedule from the formal amendment process under Article 368. interpretation should therefore focus on the specific scope of the Schedule provision rather than assuming every constitutional-text change follows the same route.
The distinction here is important: Parliament can update the Schedule through ordinary legislation, while that law is expressly not treated as a constitutional amendment under article 368. This makes the Schedule a practical constitutional mechanism that can evolve without invoking the full amendment procedure. The wording also preserves continuity, since constitutional references automatically apply to the amended version. That balance between flexibility and interpretive clarity is particularly useful for students trying to understand amendment procedures.