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14. In Ram Kirpal. v. Bihar this Court had the occasion of considering the provisions of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, and in particular its paragraph 5(2) which empowers the Governor to "make regulations for the peace and good government of any area in a State which is for the time being a scheduled area" and which power under sub-paragraph (3) includes the power to repeal or amend, while making such a regulation, any Act of Parliament or of a State Legislature or any existing law which is for the time being applicable to the area in question. Explaining the content and the scope of that power, Ray, J., speaking for the Court observed at page 244 of the report that the power contained in paragraph 5(2) of that Schedule embraced the widest power to legislate for the peace and good government for the area in question which comprised of not only making of laws but also of selecting and applying laws, and that "the power to apply laws is inherent when there is a power to repeal or amend any Act or any existing law applicable to the area in question".