Constitution Section 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
Part XXI — TEMPORARY, TRANSITIONAL AND — SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Constitutional
Summary
For the first five years after the Constitution came into effect, Parliament was allowed to make laws on certain subjects that are normally handled by state governments. These subjects include trade and production of items like cotton, textiles, paper, food, cattle feed, coal, iron, steel, and mica. Parliament could also make laws about offences and court powers related to these subjects. However, any law made under this special power would stop being in effect after those five years, except for actions already taken or not taken before that time.
Official Text
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 in the Concurrent List, namely:—
(a) trade and commerce within a State in, and the production, supply and distribution of, cotton and woollen textiles, raw cotton (including ginned cotton and unginned cotton or kapas), cotton seed, paper (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 mentionedin 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.