Constitution Section 250 — Power of Parliament to legislate with respect to any matter in the State List if a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation

Part XI — RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE STATES — Distribution of Legislative Powers

Constitutional

Summary

While a Proclamation of Emergency is in effect, Parliament gains the power to make laws for the entire country or any part of it regarding goods and services tax under article 246A or any matter listed in the State List. Any law that Parliament makes during the emergency that it would not normally have the power to make will stop having effect six months after the emergency ends, except for actions taken or not taken before that six-month period expires.

Official Text

(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Chapter, Parliament shall, while a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, have power to make laws for the whole or any part of the territory of India with respect to goods and services tax provided under article 246A or any of the matters enumerated in the State List.

(2) A law made by Parliament which Parliament would not but for the issue of a Proclamation of Emergency have been competent to make shall, to the extent of the incompetency, cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of six months after the Proclamation has ceased to operate, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before the expiration of the said period.