Aadhaar likely to pass the money Bill test

Bill was introduced in LS in March 2016; Case against passage filed by Jairam Ramesh in SC

The validity of the Aadhaar Act shall not be disturbed by the Supreme Court’s decision on the right to privacy case, say former government officials and legal experts. Neither would invoking the privacy clause automatically make the Act questionable because it was passed by Parliament as a money Bill, last year.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had come under fire for having used the cover of Finance Bill, 2016-17, to pass the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016.

Consequently it became a money Bill over which only the Lok Sabha had effective voting rights.