The Constitution of India
The words and figures in 268 and 269 substituted as “268, 268A and 269” by the Constitution (Eighty-eighth
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Official sourceAmendment) Act, 2003, section 3 (not enforced) and further substituted by the Constitution (One Hundred and First
Amendment) Act, 2016, section 10 (w.e.f.16.9.2016).
3. Inserted by ibid.
164 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part XII. - Finance, Property, Contracts And Suits)
(1B) The tax levied and collected by the Union under clause (2) of article 246A and
article 269A, which has been used for payment of the tax levied by the Union under clause
(1) of article 246A, and the amount apportioned to the Union under clause (1) of article
269A, shall also be distributed between the Union and the States in the manner provided in
clause (2).]
(2) Such percentage, as may be prescribed, of the net proceeds of any such tax or duty
in any financial year shall not form part of the Consolidated Fund of India, but shall be
assigned to the States within which that tax or duty is leviable in that year, and shall be
distributed among those States in such manner and from such time as may be prescribed in
the manner provided in clause (3).
(3) In this article, “prescribed”means,—
(i) until a Finance Commission has been constituted, prescribed by the President
by order, and
(ii) after a Finance Commission has been constituted, prescribed by the President
by order after considering the recommendations of the Finance Commission.]
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