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                                   PART XXI

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                       [TEMPORARY, TRANSITIONAL AND

                           SPECIAL PROVISIONS]

       369. Temporary power to Parliament to make laws with respect to
certain matters in the State List as if they were matters in the Concurrent
List.—Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, Parliament shall, during
a period of five years from the commencement of this Constitution, have power
to make laws with respect to the following matters as if they were enumerated
                                                      e
in the Concurrent List, namely:—                 od
                                              aC
          (a) trade and commerce within a State in, and the production, supply
      and distribution of, cotton and woollen textiles, raw cotton (including
                                        di
      ginned cotton and unginned cotton or kapas), cotton seed, paper
                                     In
      (including newsprint), food-stuffs (including edible oilseeds and oil),
      cattle fodder (including oil-cakes and other concentrates), coal
      (including coke and derivatives of coal), iron, steel and mica;

         (b) offences against laws with respect to any of the matters mentioned
      in clause (a), jurisdiction and powers of all courts except the Supreme
      Court with respect to any of those matters, and fees in respect of any of
      those matters but not including fees taken in any court,

but any law made by Parliament, which Parliament would not but for the
provisions of this article have been competent to make, shall, to the extent of the
incompetency, cease to have effect on the expiration of the said period, except as
respects things done or omitted to be done before the expiration thereof.




1. Subs. by the Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act, 1962, s. 2, for "TEMPORARY
   AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS" (w.e.f. 1-12-1963).
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