 annexure extract from the constitution of inbia     248, residuary powers of legislation—(/) parliament has exclusive power to make any law with respect to any matter not enumerated in the concurrent list or state list (2) such power shall include the power of making any law imposing a tax not mentioned in either of those lists 249, power of parliament to legislate with respectto a matter in the state list in the national interest—(/) notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this chapter, if the council of states has declared by resolution supported by not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting that it is necessary or expedient in the national interest that parliament should make laws with respect to any matter enumerated in the state list specified in the resolution, it shall be lawful for parliament to make laws for the whole or any part of the territory of india with respect to that matter while the resolution remains in force (2) a resolution passed under clause (1) shall remain in force for such period not exceeding one year as may be specified therein: provided that, if and so often as a resolution approving the continuance in force of any such resolution is passed in the manner provided in clause (1), such resolution shall continue in force for a further period of one year from ihe date on which under this clause it would otherwise have ceased to be in force,      251 inconsistency between laws made by parliament under articles 249 and 250 and laws made by the legislatures of states—nothing in articles 249 and 250 shall resirict the power of the legislature of a state to make any law which under this constitution it has pawer to make, but if any provision of a law made by the legislature of a state is repugnant to any provision of a law made by parliament which parliament has under either of the said articles power to make, the law made by parliament, whether passed before or after the law made by the legislature of the state, shall prevail, and the law made by the legislature of the state shall to the extent of the repugnancy, but so long only as the law made by parliament continues to have effect, be inoperative, 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 resoiutions 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 hot, as respects any state to which it applies, be amended or repealed by an act of the legislature of that state       (article 246)list i—union list   a   97, any other matter not enumerated in list if or list ie including any tax not mentioned in either of those lists,      