Article 304 Constitution of India: Restrictions on trade, commerce and intercourse among 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 13
Chapter Title Ministry Department
Trade, Commerce And Intercourse Within The Territory Of India Ministry of Law And Justice Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms

Notwithstanding anything in article 301 or article 303, the Legislature of a State may by law-

(a) Impose on goods imported from other States 1[or the Union territories] any tax to which similar goods manufactured or produced in that State are subject, so, however, as not to discriminate between goods so imported and goods so manufactured or produced; and

(b) Impose such reasonable restrictions on the freedom of trade, commerce or intercourse with or within that State as may be required in the public interests:

Provided that no Bill or amendment for the purposes of clause (b) shall be introduced or moved in the Legislature of a State without the previous sanction of the President.

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1. Ins. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 29 and Sch.