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PART XI RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE STATES · CHAPTER I.— LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS · Distribution of Legislative Powers

Article 252: Power of Parliament to legislate for two or more States by consent and adoption of such legislation by any other State

The Constitution of India

(1) If it appears to the Legislatures of two or more States to be desirable that any of the matters with respect to which Parliament has no power to make laws for the States except as provided in articles 249 and 250 should be regulated in such States by Parliament by law, and if resolutions to that effect are passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of those States, it shall be lawful for Parliament to pass an act for regulating that matter accordingly, and any Act so passed shall apply to such States and to any other State by which it is adopted afterwards by resolution passed in that behalf by the House or, where there are two Houses, by each of the Houses of the Legislature of that State.

(2) Any Act so passed by Parliament may be amended or repealed by an Act of Parliament passed or adopted in like manner but shall not, as respects any State to which it applies, be amended or repealed by an Act of the Legislature of that State.

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  1. 1. Assertion (A): Parliament enacted the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 after the Houses of the Legislatures of several States passed resolutions under clause (1) of Article 252 of the Constitution. Reason (R): Article 253 empowers Parliament to make any law for the whole or any part of the territory of India for implementing any decision made at any international conference.

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