The Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India contains three lists - a Central List, a State List, and a Concurrent List.
These lists relate to the Distribution of Legislative Powers contained in Chapter 1 of Part XI of the Constitution of India, which states that the Parliament has the exclusive power to make laws with respect to the matters in List I (the Central List), the Legislatures of the States have the power to make laws for the matters in List II (the State List), and both may make laws related to List III (the Concurrent List).
The Parliament may additionally make laws
These lists relate to the Distribution of Legislative Powers contained in Chapter 1 of Part XI of the Constitution of India, which states that the Parliament has the exclusive power to make laws with respect to the matters in List I (the Central List), the Legislatures of the States have the power to make laws for the matters in List II (the State List), and both may make laws related to List III (the Concurrent List).
The Parliament may additionally make laws
- to create new courts for the administration of laws
- for any matters not contained in any of the three lists, including the creation of new taxes
- for any matter in List II, in the national interest or in case a Proclamation of Emergency is in effect
- on any topic for the implementation of an international agreement
In case of a conflict between any law made by Parliament and a law made by the State Legislature, the law made by the Parliament will generally prevail, whether made before or after the State law. However, the State law may prevail over the Central law with the assent of the President.
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Central List - List I (97 items)
- Defence of India, the armed forces, war, and peace
- Arms, firearms, ammunition and explosives
- Atomic energy
- Central Bureau of Intelligence and Investigation
- Foreign affairs; diplomatic, consular and trade representation
- United Nations Organisation and other international conferences, associations, and bodies; international agreements, treaties, trade
- Citizenship, naturalization, and aliens; immigration and emigration (passports and visas), extradition
- Pilgrimages to places outside India
- Railways, national highways, national waterways, airways (and aircraft, air navigation, crimes committed in the air)
- Maritime shipping and navigation, including lighthouses and beacons; ports; piracy and crimes committed on the high seas
- Lighthouses, including lightships, beacons and other provision for the safety of shipping and aircraft
- Posts and telegraphs; telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication; Post Office Savings Bank
- The public debt of the Union
- Currency, coinage and legal tender; foreign exchange, foreign loans, Reserve Bank of India, banking, financial instruments
- Lotteries organized by the Government of India or the Government of a State
- Incorporation, regulation, and winding up of corporations
- All intellectual property - patents, inventions, designs, copyright, trade-marks, and merchandise marks
- Establishment of standards of weight and measure, quality of goods
- Regulation and development of oilfields and mineral oil resources, mines and mineral development
- Fishing and fisheries beyond territorial waters
- Manufacture, supply, and distribution of salt
- Cultivation, manufacture, and sale for export, of opium
- Sanctioning of cinematograph films for exhibition
- Industrial disputes concerning Union employees
- Institutions for scientific or technical education financed by the Government of India wholly or in part and declared by Parliament by law to be institutions of national importance
- Coordination and determination of standards in institutions for higher education or research and scientific and technical institutions
- Ancient and historical monuments and records, and archaeological sites and remains, declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance
- The Survey of India, the Geological, Botanical, Zoological and Anthropological Surveys of India; Meteorological organizations
- Census
- Union Public Service, All-India Services, Union Public Service Commission
- Union pensions, payable by the Government of India or out of the Consolidated Fund of India
- Elections to Parliament, to the Legislatures of States and to the offices of President, Vice-President, and the Election Commission, and their powers, privileges, immunities, salaries, and allowances
- Audit of the accounts of the Union and of the States
- Constitution, organization, jurisdiction, and powers of the Supreme Court (including contempt of such Court), and the fees taken therein; persons entitled to practice before the Court
- Inter-State migration and quarantine
- Taxes
- Offenses against laws with respect to any of the matters in this List
- Inquiries, surveys, and statistics for the purpose of any of the matters in this List
- Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this List; admiralty jurisdiction
- Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List (not including fees taken in any court)
- Any other matter not enumerated in List II or List III including any tax not mentioned in either of those Lists
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State List - List II (66 items)
- Public order, police, prisons
- Officers and servants of the High Court; procedure in rent and revenue courts; fees taken in all courts except the Supreme Court
- Local government - the constitution and powers of municipal corporations and other local authorities for the purpose of local self-government
- Public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries
- Pilgrimages, other than pilgrimages to places outside India
- Intoxicating liquors, that is to say, the production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase, and sale of intoxicating liquors
- Relief for the disabled and unemployable
- Burials and burial grounds, cremations and cremation grounds
- Libraries, museums, and other similar institutions controlled or financed by the State; ancient and historical monuments and records other than those declared to be of national importance
- Communications (roads, bridges, ferries, and other means not specified in List I)
- Agriculture, including agricultural education and research, protection against pests and prevention of plant diseases; taxes on agricultural income; duties in respect of succession to agricultural land; estate duty in respect of agricultural land
- Animals - preservation, protection, and improvement of stock, prevention of animal diseases, veterinary training and practice, pounds, prevention of cattle trespass, fisheries
- Water, water supplies, irrigation and canals, drainage and embankments, water storage, and water power subject to the provisions of entry 56 of List I
- Land, rights in or over land, land tenures including the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rents; transfer and alienation of agricultural land; land improvement and agricultural loans; colonization; land revenue, including the assessment and collection of revenue, the maintenance of land records, survey for revenue purposes and records of rights, and alienation of revenues; taxes on lands and buildings
- Courts of wards subject to the provisions of entry 34 of List I; encumbered and attached estates
- Regulation of mines and mineral development subject to the provisions of List I with respect to regulation and development under the control of the Union
- Industries subject to the provisions of entries 7 and 52 of List I
- Gas and gas-works
- Trade and commerce within the State subject to the provisions of entry 33 of List III; production, supply, and distribution of goods subject to the provisions of entry 33 of List III; markets and fairs
- Money-lending and money-lenders; relief of agricultural indebtedness
- Inns and innkeepers
- Incorporation, regulation and winding up of corporations, other than those specified in List I, and universities; unincorporated trading, literary, scientific, religious and other societies and associations; co-operative societies
- Theatres and dramatic performances; cinemas subject to the provisions of entry 60 of List I; sports, entertainments, and amusements
- Betting and gambling, and taxes thereon
- Works, lands, and buildings vested in or in the possession of the State
- Elections to the Legislature of the State subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament
- Salaries, allowances, powers, privileges, and immunities of members of the Legislature of the State, of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and, if there is a Legislative Council, of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman thereof
- Salaries and allowances of Ministers for the State
- State public services; State Public Service Commission
- State pensions, that is to say, pensions payable by the State or out of the Consolidated Fund of the State
- The public debt of the State
- Treasure trove
- Taxes on mineral rights subject to any limitations imposed by Parliament by law relating to mineral development
- Duties of excise on alcoholic liquors, opium, Indian hemp, and other narcotic drugs and narcotics manufactured or produced in the State and countervailing duties at the same or lower rates on similar goods manufactured or produced elsewhere in India
- Taxes
- Rates of stamp duty in respect of documents other than those specified in the provisions of List I
- Offenses against laws with respect to any of the matters in this List
- Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this List
- Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court
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Concurrent List - List III (47 items)
- Criminal law and procedure
- Preventive detention for reasons connected with the security of a State, the maintenance of public order, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community; persons subjected to such detention
- Removal from one State to another State of prisoners, accused persons and persons subjected to preventive detention for reasons specified in entry 3 of this List
- Marriage and divorce; infants and minors; adoption; wills, intestacy, and succession; joint family and partition; all matters in respect of which parties in judicial proceedings were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution subject to their personal law
- Transfer of property other than agricultural land; registration of deeds and documents
- Contracts, including partnership, agency, contracts of carriage, and other special forms of contracts, but not including contracts relating to agricultural land
- Actionable wrongs
- Bankruptcy and insolvency
- Trust and Trustees
- Administrators - general and official trustees
- Administration of Justice; constitution and organization of all courts, except the Supreme Court and the High Courts
- Evidence and oaths; recognition of laws, public acts and records, and judicial proceedings
- Civil procedure, limitation, and arbitration
- Contempt of court, but not including contempt of the Supreme Court
- Vagrancy; nomadic and migratory tribes
- Lunacy and mental deficiency, including places for the reception or treatment of lunatics and mentally deficient
- Prevention of cruelty to animals
- Forests
- Protection of wild animals and birds
- Adulteration of foodstuffs and other goods
- Drugs and poisons, subject to the provisions of entry 59 of List I with respect to opium
- Economic and social planning
- Population control and family planning
- Commercial and industrial monopolies, combines and trusts
- Labour - trade unions; industrial and labour disputes; social security and social insurance; employment and unemployment; welfare of labour including conditions of work, provident funds, employers’ liability, workmen’s compensation, invalidity and old age pensions and maternity benefits
- Education, including technical education, medical education, and universities, subject to the provisions of entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of List I; vocational and technical training of labor
- Legal, medical and other professions
- Relief and rehabilitation of persons displaced from their original place of residence by reason of the setting up of the Dominions of India and Pakistan
- Charities and charitable institutions, charitable and religious endowments and religious institutions
- Prevention of the extension from one State to another of infectious or contagious diseases or pests affecting men, animals or plants
- Vital statistics including registration of births and deaths
- Ports other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to be major ports
- Shipping and navigation on inland waterways as regards mechanically propelled vessels, and the rule of the road on such waterways, and the carriage of passengers and goods on inland waterways subject to the provisions of List I with respect to national waterways
- Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply, and distribution of foodstuffs (including edible oilseeds and oils), cattle fodder (including oil cakes and other concentrates), raw cotton (whether ginned or unginned and cottonseed), and raw jute
- Weights and measures except for the establishment of standards
- Price control
- Mechanically propelled vehicles including the principles on which taxes on such vehicles are to be levied
- Factories
- Boilers
- Electricity
- Newspapers, books, and printing presses
- Archaeological sites and remains other than those declared to be of national importance
- Property - custody, management, and disposal of property (including agricultural land) declared by law to be evacuee property; acquisition and requisitioning of property
- Recovery in a State of claims in respect of taxes and other public demands, including arrears of land-revenue and sums recoverable as such arrears, arising outside that State
- Stamp duties other than duties or fees collected by means of judicial stamps, but not including rates of stamp duty
- Inquiries and statistics for the purposes of any of the matters specified in List II or List III
- Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this List
- Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court
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