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Article 268 Constitution of India: Duties levied by the Union but collected and appropriated by the States


 
Category of Bare Act Name of the Act Year of Promulgation
Civil Laws The CONSTITUTION OF INDIA 1975
Act Number Enactment Date Chapter Number
36 1975-04-26 12
Chapter Title Ministry Department
Finance, Property, Contracts And Suits Ministry of Law And Justice Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms

(1) Such stamp duties and such duties of excise on medicinal and toilet preparations as are mentioned in the Union List shall be levied by the Government of India but shall be collected-

(a) In the case where such duties are leviable within any 1[Union territory], by the Government of India, and

(b) In other cases, by the States within which such duties are respectively leviable.

(2) The proceeds in any financial year of any such duty leviable within any State shall not form part of the Consolidated Fund of India, but shall be assigned to that State.

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1. Subs. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, sec. 29 and sch., for “State specified in Part C of the First Schedule”.

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