## CONSTITUTION 303

### CONSTITUTION 303 — Restrictions on the legislative powers of the Union and of the States with regard to trade and commerce
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> 303. Restrictions on the legislative powers of the Union and of the
States with regard to trade and commerce.-(1) Notwithstanding anything in
article 302, neither Parliament nor the Legislature of a State shall have power to
make any law giving, or authorising the giving of, any preference to one State
over another, or making, or authorising the making of, any discrimination
between one State and another, by virtue of any entry relating to trade and
commerce in any of the Lists in the Seventh Schedule.
(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall prevent Parliament from making any law
giving, or authorising the giving of, any preference or making, or authorising the
making of, any discrimination if it is declared by such law that it is necessary to
do so for the purpose of dealing with a situation arising from scarcity of goods in
any part of the territory of India.