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{{distinguish|text=concurrent Legislative List of [[Malaysia]] or of [[Pakistan]]}}
{{Indian Constitution TOC}}
The '''Concurrent List''' or '''List-III''' (Seventh Schedule)<ref>{{Cite web|title=SEVENTH SCHEDULE|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/Images/pdf1/S7.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> is a list of 52 items (though the last subjects is numbered 47) given in the [[Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India|Seventh Schedule]] to the [[Constitution of India]]. It includes the power to be considered by both the union and state government. The legislative section is divided into three lists: [[Union List]], [[State List]] and Concurrent List. Unlike the [[federal government]]s of the United States, Switzerland or Australia, residual powers remain with the [[Union Government]], as with the Canadian federal government.<ref>{{cite book | title=India: Government and politics in a developing nation| edition=Seventh| author=Robert L. Hardgrave and Stanley A. Koachanek| year=2008| page=146| publisher=Thomson Wadsworth| isbn=978-0-495-00749-4}}</ref>

Uniformity is desirable but not essential on items in the concurrent list.<ref name="Babulal">{{cite book | title=State politics in India Volume II | author=Babulal Fadia| year=1984| pages=92–122| publisher=Radiant publishers, New Delhi}}</ref> If any provision of a law made by the [[State legislature|Legislature of a State]] is repugnant to any provision of a law made by [[Parliament of India|Parliament]] which Parliament is competent to enact, or to any provision of an existing law with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent List, then, the law made by Parliament, whether passed before or after the law made by the Legislature of such State, or, as the case may be, the existing law, shall prevail and the law made by the Legislature of the State shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void. There is an exception to this in cases "where a law is made by the Legislature of a State with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent List contains any provision repugnant to the provisions of an earlier law made by Parliament or an existing law with respect to that matter, then, the law so made by the Legislature of such State shall, if it has been reserved for the consideration of the [[President of India|President]] and has received his assent, prevail in that State. Provided that nothing in this clause shall prevent Parliament from enacting at any time any law with respect to the same matter including a law adding to, amending, varying or repealing the law so made by the Legislature of the State."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lawmin.nic.in/olwing/coi/coi-english/Const.Pock%202Pg.Rom8Fsss(16).pdf |title=Part XI - Relations between the Union and the States |publisher=[[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Ministry of Law and Justice]] |access-date=2013-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501234616/http://lawmin.nic.in/olwing/coi/coi-english/Const.Pock%202Pg.Rom8Fsss(16).pdf |archive-date=2013-05-01 |url-status=dead }} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

==Items on the list==
The 52 items currently on the list are:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vakilbabu.com/Laws/SubList/ConList.htm |title=The Concurrent Subject List |publisher=Vakilbabu.com |access-date=2013-03-25}} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/shed07.htm |title=Seventh Schedule |publisher=Constitution.org |access-date=2013-03-25}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>


:1. [[Indian criminal law|Criminal law]], including all matters included in the [[Indian Penal Code]] at the commencement of this Constitution but excluding offences against laws with respect to any of the matters specified in [[Union List|List I]] or [[State List|List II]] and excluding the use of [[Indian Navy|naval]], [[military]] or [[Indian Air Force|air forces]] or any other [[Indian Armed Forces|armed forces]] of the Union in aid of the civil power.
:2. [[Criminal procedure]], including all matters included in the [[Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (India)|Code of Criminal Procedure]] at the commencement of this Constitution.
:3. [[Preventive detention]] for reasons connected with the [[National security|security of a State]], the maintenance of [[Public-order crime|public order]], or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community; persons subjected to such [[Detention (imprisonment)|detention]].
:4. Removal from one [[States and territories of India|State]] to another State of [[prisoner]]s, [[Indictment|accused]] persons and persons subjected to preventive detention for reasons specified in Entry 3 of this list.
:5. [[Marriage]] and [[divorce]]; [[infant]]s and [[Minor (law)|minors]]; [[adoption]]; [[Will (law)|wills]], [[intestacy]] and succession; [[joint family]] and [[Partition (law)|partition]]; all matters in respect of which parties in judicial proceedings were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution subject to their personal law.
:6. Transfer of property other than [[agricultural land]]; registration of [[deed]]s and documents.
:7. [[Contract]]s including [[partnership]], [[Law of agency|agency]], [[Contract of carriage|contracts of carriage]], and other special forms of contracts, but not including contracts relating to agricultural land.
:8. Actionable wrongs
:9. [[Bankruptcy]] and [[insolvency]].
:10. [[Trust law|Trust]] and [[Trustee]]s.
:11. Administrators – general and official trustees.
:11-A. Administration of justice; constitution and Organisation of all courts, except the [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] and the [[List of High Courts of India|High Courts]].
:12. [[Evidence]] and [[oath]]s; recognition of laws, [[Public bill|public acts]] and records, and [[Legal case|judicial proceedings]].
:13. [[Civil procedure]], including all matters included in the Code of Civil Procedure at the commencement of this Constitution, limitation and [[arbitration]].
:14. [[Contempt of court]], but not including contempt of the Supreme Court.
:15. [[Vagrancy (people)|Vagrancy]]; [[nomad]]ic and migratory tribes.
:16. [[Lunatic|Lunacy]] and [[Mental retardation|mental deficiency]], including [[Psychiatric hospital|places for the reception or treatment]] of [[lunatic]]s and mental deficients.
:17. Prevention of [[cruelty to animals]].
:17-A. [[Forest]]s.
:17-B. [[Wildlife conservation|Protection of wild animals]] and [[Bird conservation|birds]].
:18. [[Adulterant|Adulteration]] of foodstuffs and other goods.
:19. [[Drug]]s and [[poison]]s, subject to the provisions of Entry 59 of List I with respect to [[opium]].
:20. [[Economic planning|Economic]] and [[Social engineering (political science)|social planning]].
:20-A. [[Population control]] and [[family planning]].
:21. Commercial and industrial monopolies, [[Combine (enterprise)|combines]] and trusts.
:22. [[Trade union]]s; [[Strike action|industrial]] and [[labour dispute]]s.
:23. [[Social security]] and [[social insurance]]; [[employment]] and [[unemployment]].
:24. Welfare of labour including [[List of topics on working time and conditions|conditions of work]], [[Employees Provident Fund Organisation of India|provident funds]], [[Vicarious liability#Employers' liability|employers' liability]], [[Workers' compensation|workmen's compensation]], [[Disability|invalidity]] and [[old age pension]]s and [[Parental leave|maternity benefits]].
:25. [[Education in India|Education]], including [[technical education]], [[medical education]] and universities, subject to the provisions of Entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of List I; [[Vocational education|vocational]] and technical training of labour.
:26. [[Legal]], [[medical]] and other [[profession]]s.
:27. [[Humanitarian aid|Relief]] and rehabilitation of persons displaced from their original place of residence by reason of the setting up of the [[Dominion]]s of [[Dominion of India|India]] and [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]].
:28. [[Charity (practice)|Charities]] and [[Charitable organization|charitable institutions]], charitable and religious endowments and [[religious institution]]s.
:29. Prevention of the extension from one State to another of infectious or contagious diseases or pests affecting men, animals or plants.
:30. [[Vital statistics (government records)|Vital statistics]] including registration of births and deaths.
:31. [[Port]]s other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to be major ports.
:32. [[Shipping]] and [[navigation]] on [[inland waterway]]s as regards mechanically propelled vessels, and the rule of the road on such [[waterway]]s, and the carriage of passengers and goods on inland waterways subject to the provisions of List I with respect to national waterways.
:33. [[Trade]] and [[commerce]] in, and the [[Manufacturing|production]], [[Confidence and supply|supply]] and distribution of,-
:::(a) the products of any industry where the control of such industry by the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the [[public interest]], and imported goods of the same kind as such products
:::(b) [[foodstuff]]s, including edible [[oilseed]]s and [[Cooking oil|oil]]s
:::(c) cattle [[fodder]], including [[Press cake|oilcakes]] and other concentrates
:::(d) raw [[cotton]], whether ginned or not ginned, and [[Cottonseed|cotton seed]]; and
:::(e) raw [[jute]].
:33-A. Weights and measures except establishment of standards.
:34. [[Price controls|Price control]].
:35. [[Motor vehicle|Mechanically propelled vehicles]] including the principles on which taxes on such vehicles are to be levied.
:36. Factories.
:37. Boilers.
:38. [[Electricity sector in India|Electricity]].
:39. [[List of newspapers in India|Newspapers]], books and [[printing press]]es.
:40. [[Archaeological site]]s and remains other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance.
:41. Custody, management and disposal of property (including agricultural land) declared by law to be evacuee property.
:42. Acquisition and requisitioning of property.
:43. 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.
:44. [[Stamp duty|Stamp duties]] other than duties or fees collected by means of judicial stamps, but not including rates of stamp duty.
:45. Inquiries and statistics for the purposes of any of the matters specified in List II or List III.
:46. Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]], with respect to any of the matters in this List.
:47. Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court.

==Transferred Subjects==
Through the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 Five subjects were transferred from State to Concurrent List. They are:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend42.htm}}</ref>

# Education
# Forests
# Weights & Measures
# Protection of Wild Animals and Birds
# Administration of Justice

== See also ==
* [[Union List]]
* [[State List]]
* [[Constitution of India]]
* [[Part Eleven of the Constitution of India]]
* [[Federalism in India]]

==References==
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[[Category:History of the Republic of India]]
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[[Category:Federalism in India]]

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