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promulgating the law. It is said, constitution must
be construed as on the day after it was enacted. Dr.
Wynes phrase ‘generic interpretation’ clearly brings
out
the
true
nature
of
this
principle
of
interpretation. He wrote: ‘…generic interpretation’ … asserts no more than
that new developments of the same subject and new
means of executing an unchanging power do arise from
time to time and are capable of control and exercise
by the appropriate organ to which the power has been
committed … while the power remains the same, its
extent
and
ambit
may
grow
with
the
progress
of
history. Hence it will be seen that suppositions as
to what the Framers might have done if their minds
had
been
irrelevant
directed
to
future
and
the
question
that
developments
whether
a
are
novel
development is or is not included in the terms of the
constitution finds its solution in the application of
the ordinary principles of interpretation, namely,
what
is
the
meaning
of
the
terms
in
which
his
intention has been expressed?” (R. v. Brislan; p.
(1935) 54C.L.R. 262).