Ambiguity cannot be created artificially

If there is ambiguity in the terms of the statute, recourse must natural be had to the well established principles of construction but it is not permissible first to create and artificial ambiguity and then try to resolve the ambiguity and resort to some general or special principle of construction . I.T. Commr. v. Indo Bank, AIR 1959 SC 713. The court cannot add words to a section unless the section as it stands is meaningless or of doubtful meaning. British India General Insurance v. Capt Itbar Singh , AIR 1959 SC 133. (1) The fees shown in the Schedule to these rules shall be charged for the grant and renewal of licences and for inspections. These fees shall be deposited in a Government treasury before applying for the grant and renewal of licences and for inspections. (2) An application for the annual inspection referred to in the proviso the sub-rule (ii) of rule 3 shall be made by the licensee at least one month before the date of inspection becomes due, after depositing the prescribed fee in a government treasury. Explanation. - For the purpose of sub-rule (2) the expression 'the date the inception becomes due' hall mean. - (a) in relation to the first annual inspection, the date next after the expiry of one year; and (b) in relation to the second annual inspection, the date next after the expiry of two years : of the grant of renewal of a licence, as the case may be; Posters and pictorial publicity material pertaining to cinematograph films which are a gross misrepresentation of the film itself and which even when not clearly obscene objectionably suggestive, shall not be displayed in cinema halls.