Monday 8 February 2016

Fourth Schedule: Legislative Lists

Fourth Schedule

Legislative Lists


 Federal Legislative List

PART I 

1. The defence of the Federation or any part thereof in peace or war; the military, naval and air forces of the Federation and any other armed forces raised or maintained by the Federation; any armed forces which are not forces of the Federation but are attached to or operating with any of the Armed Forces of the Federation including civil armed forces; Federal Intelligence Bureau; preventive detention for reasons of State connected with defence, external affairs, or the security of Pakistan or any part thereof; person subjected to such detention; industries declared by Federal law to be necessary for the purpose of defence or for the prosecution of war.
 
2. Military, naval and air force works; local self- government in cantonment areas, the constitution and powers within such areas of cantonment authorities, the regulation of house accommodation in such areas, and the delimitation of such areas.
 
3. External affairs; the implementing of treaties and agreements, including educational and cultural pacts and agreements, with other countries; extradition, including the surrender of criminals and accused persons to Governments outside Pakistan.
 
4. Nationality, citizenship and naturalization.
 
5. Migration from or into, or settlement in, a Province or the Federal Capital.
 
6. Admission into, and emigration and expulsion from, Pakistan including in relation thereto the regulation of the movements in Pakistan of persons not domiciled in Pakistan; pilgrimages to places beyond Pakistan.
 
7. Posts and telegraphs, including telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communications; Post Office Saving Bank.
 
8. Currency, coinage and legal tender.
 
9. Foreign exchange; cheques, bills of exchange, promissory notes and other like instruments.
 
10. Public debt of the Federation, including the borrowing of money on the security of the Federal Consolidated Fund; foreign loans and foreign aid.
 
11. Federal Public Services and Federal Public Service Commission.
 
12. Federal Pensions, that is to say, pensions payable by the Federation or out of the Federal Consolidated Fund.
 
13. Federal Ombudsmen.
 
14. Administrative Courts and Tribunals for Federal subjects.
 
15. Libraries, museums, and similar institutions controlled or financed by the Federation.
 
16. Federal agencies and institutes for the following purposes, that is to say, for research, for professional or technical training, or for the promotion of special studies.
 
17. Education as respects Pakistani students in foreign countries and foreign students in Pakistan.
 
18. Nuclear energy, including:-
(a) mineral resources necessary for the generation of nuclear energy;
(b) the production of nuclear fuels and the generation and use of nuclear energy, and
(c) ionizing radiations 771[; and] 771
 772[
(d) boilers.
] 772
 
19. Port quarantine, seamen's and marine hospitals and hospitals connected with port quarantine.
 
20. Maritime shipping and navigation, including shipping and navigation on tidal waters; Admiralty jurisdiction.
 
 773[] 773
22. Aircraft and air navigation; the provision of aerodromes; regulation and organization of air traffic and of aerodromes.
 
23. Lighthouses, including lightships, beacons and other provisions for the safety of shipping and aircraft.
 
24. Carriage of passengers and goods by sea or by air.
 
25. Copyright, inventions, designs, trademarks and merchandise marks.
 
26. Opium so far as regards sale for export.
 
27. Import and export across customs frontiers as deemed by the Federal Government, inter-provincial trade and commerce, trade and commerce with foreign countries; standard of quality of goods to be exported out of Pakistan.
 
28. State Bank of Pakistan; banking, that is to say, the conduct of banking business by corporations other than corporations owned or controlled by a Province and carrying on business only within that Province.
 
29. The law of insurance, except as respects insurance undertaken by a Province, and the regulation of the conduct of insurance business, except as respects business undertaken by a Province, Government insurance, except so far as undertaken by a Province by virtue of any matter within the legislative competence of the Provincial Assembly.
 
30. Stock exchanges and future markets with objects and business not confined to one Province.
 
31. Corporations, that is to say, the incorporation, regulation and winding- up of trading corporations, including banking, insurance and financial corporations, but not including corporations owned or controlled by a Province and carrying on business only within that Province, or cooperative societies, and of corporations, whether trading or not, with objects not confined to a Province, but not including universities.
 
 774[
32. International treaties, conventions and agreements and International arbitration.
 
] 774
 775[] 775
34. National highways and strategic roads.
 
35. Federal surveys including geological surveys and Federal meteorological organizations.
 
36. Fishing and fisheries beyond territorial waters.
 
37. Works, lands and buildings vested in, or in the possession of Government for the purposes of the Federation (not being military, naval or air force works), but, as regards property situate in a Province, subject always to Provincial legislation, save in so far as Federal law otherwise provides.
 
 776[] 776
39. Establishment of standards of weights and measures.
 
 777[] 777
41. Elections to the office of President, to the National Assembly, the Senate and the Provincial Assemblies; Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissions.
 
42. The salaries, allowances and privileges of the President, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Senate, Prime Minister, Federal Minister, Ministers of State, the salaries, allowances and privileges of the members of the Senate and the National Assembly, and the punishment of persons who refuse to give evidence or produce documents before committees thereof.
 
43. Duties of customs, including export duties.
 
44. Duties of exercise, including duties on salt, but not including duties on alcoholic liquors, opium and other narcotics.
 
 778[] 778
 779[] 779
47. Taxes on income other than agricultural income;
 
48. Taxes on corporations.
 
49. Taxes on the sales and purchases of goods imported, exported, produced, manufactured or consumed  780[, except sales tax on services] 780.
 
50. Taxes on the capital value of the assets, not including taxes  781[] 781 on immovable property.
 
51. Taxes on mineral oil, natural gas and minerals for use in generation of nuclear energy.
 
52. Taxes and duties on the production capacity of any plant, machinery, undertaking, establishment or installation in lieu of any one or more of them.
 
53. Terminal taxes on goods or passengers carried by railway, sea or air; taxes on their fares and freights.
 
54. Fees in respect of any of the matters in this Part, but not including fees taken in any court.
 
55. Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this list and, to such extent as is expressly authorized by or under the Constitution, the enlargement of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and the conferring thereon of supplemental powers.
 
56. Offences against laws with respect to any of the matters in this Part.
 
57. Inquiries and statistics for the purposes of any of the matters in this Part.
 
58. Matters which under the Constitution are within the legislative competence of Majlis- e-Shoora (Parliament) or relate to the Federation.
 
59. Matters incidental or ancillary to any matter enumerated in this Part.
 

PART II 

1. Railways.
 
2. Mineral oil and natural gas; liquids and substances declared by Federal law to be dangerously inflammable.
 
3. Development of industries, where development under Federal control is declared by Federal law to be expedient in the public interest; institutions, establishments, bodies and corporations administered or managed by the Federal Government immediately before the commencing day, including the  782[Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority and the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation] 782; all undertakings, projects and schemes of such institutions, establishments, bodies and corporations, industries, projects and undertakings owned wholly or partially by the Federation or by a corporation set up by the Federation.
 
 783[
4. Electricity.
 
5. Major ports, that is to say, the declaration and delimitation of such ports, and the constitution and powers of port authorities therein.
 
6. All regulatory authorities established under a Federal law.
 
7. National planning and national economic coordination including planning and coordination of scientific and technological research.
 
8. Supervision and management of public debt.
 
9. Census.
 
10. Extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any Province to any area in another Province, but not so as to enable the police of one Province to exercise powers and jurisdiction in another Province without the consent of the Government of that Province; extension of the powers and jurisdiction of a police force belonging to any Pronvice to railway areas outside that Province.
 
11. Legal, medical and other professions.
 
12. Standards in institutions for higher education and research, scientific and technical institutions.
 
13. Inter-provincial matters and co-ordination.
 
] 783
 784[13.] 784 Council of Common Interests.
 
 785[14.] 785 Fees in respect of any of the matters in this Part but not including fees taken in any court.
 
 786[15.] 786 Offences against laws with respect to any of the matters in this Parts.
 
 787[16.] 787 Inquiries and statistics for the purposes of any of the matters in this Part.
 
 788[17.] 788 Matters incidental or ancillary to any matter enumerated in this Part.
 
 789[] 789

Notes

771   Substituted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010) for ".".
772   Inserted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010).
773   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iii) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :
21. Major ports, that is to say, the declaration and delimitation of such ports, and the constitution and powers of port authorities therein.
 
774   Substituted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(ii) (with effect from April 19, 2010) for :
32. National planning and national economic coordination including planning and coordination of scientific and technological research.
 
775   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iii) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :
33. State lotteries.
 
776   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iii) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :
38. Census.
 
777   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iii) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :
40. Extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any Province to any area in another Province, but not so as to enable the police of one Province to exercise powers and jurisdiction in another Province without the consent of the Government of that Province; extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any Province to railway areas outside that Province.
 
778   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iv) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :
45. Duties in respect of succession to property.
 
779   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iv) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :
46. Estate duty in respect of property.
 
780   Inserted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(v) (with effect from April 19, 2010).
781   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(1)(iv) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : "on capital gains".
782   Substituted by Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Act, 1976 (62 of 1976), Section 19(a)(ii) (with effect from September 16, 1976) for "West Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority and the West Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation".
783   Inserted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(2)(ii) (with effect from April 19, 2010).
784   Renumbered from "4.". by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(2)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010)
785   Renumbered from "5.". by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(2)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010)
786   Renumbered from "6.". by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(2)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010)
787   Renumbered from "7.". by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(2)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010)
788   Renumbered from "8.". by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(2)(i) (with effect from April 19, 2010)
789   The following was omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, Section 101(3) (with effect from April 19, 2010) : :

 Concurrent Legislative List

1. Criminal law, including all matters included in the Pakistan Penal Code on the commencing day, but excluding offences against laws with respect to any of the matters specified in the Federal Legislative List and excluding the use of naval, military and air forces in aid of civil power.
 
2. Criminal procedure, including all matters included in the Code of Criminal Procedure, on the commencing day.
 
3. Civil procedure, including the law of limitation and all matters included in the Code of Civil Procedure on the commencing day, the recovery in a Province or the Federal Capital of claims in respect of taxes and other public demands, including arrears of land revenue and sums recoverable as such, arising outside that Province.
 
4. Evidence and oath; recognition of laws, public acts and records of judicial proceedings.
 
5. Marriage and divorce; infants and minors; adoption.
 
6. Wills, intestacy and succession, save as regards agricultural land.
 
7. Bankruptcy and insolvency, administrators- general and official trustees.
 
8. Arbitration.
 
9. Contracts, including partnership, agency, contracts of carriage, and other special forms of contracts, but not including contracts relating to agricultural land.
 
10. Trusts and trustees.
 
11. Transfer of property other than agriculture land, registration of deeds and documents.
 
12. Actionable wrongs, save in so far as included in laws with respect to any of the matters specified in the Federal Legislative List.
 
13. Removal of prisoners and accused persons from one Province to another Province.
 
14. Preventive detention for reasons connected with the maintenance of public order, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community; persons subjected to such detention.
 
15. Persons subjected to preventive detention under Federal authority.
 
16. Measures to combat certain offences committed in connection with matters concerning the Federal and Provincial Governments and the establishment of a police force for that purpose.
 
17. Arms, firearms and ammunition.
 
18. Explosives.
 
19. Opium, so far as regards cultivation and manufacture.
 
20. Drugs and medicines.
 
21. Poisons and dangerous drugs.
 
22. Prevention of the extension from one Province to another of infectious or contagious diseases or pests affecting men, animals or plants.
 
23. Mental illness and mental retardation, including places for the reception or treatment of the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
 
24. Environmental pollution and ecology.
 
25. Population planning and social welfare.
 
26. Welfare of labor; conditions of labor, provident funds; employer's liability and workmen's compensation, health insurance including invalidity pensions, old age pensions.
 
27. Trade unions; industrial and labor disputes.
 
28. The setting up and carrying on of labor exchanges, employment information bureaus and training establishments.
 
29. Boilers.
 
30. Regulation of labor and safety in mines, factories and oil- fields.
 
31. Unemployment insurance.
 
32. Shipping and navigation on inland waterways as regards mechanically propelled vessels, and the rule of the road on such waterways; carriage of passengers and goods on inland waterways.
 
33. Mechanically propelled vehicles.
 
34. Electricity.
 
35. Newspapers, books and printing presses.
 
36. Evacuee property.
 
37. Ancient and historical monuments, archaeological sites and remains.
 
38. Curriculum, syllabus, planning, policy, centres of excellence and standards of education.
 
39. Islamic education.
 
40. Zakat.
 
41. Production, censorship and exhibition of cinematograph films.
 
42. Tourism.
 
43. Legal medical and other professions.
 
 790[
43A. Auqaf.
 
] 790
44. Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court.
 
45. Inquiries and statistics for the purpose of any of the matters in this List.
 
46. Offences against laws with respect to any of the matters in this List; jurisdiction and powers of all courts except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this List.
 
47. Matters incidental or ancillary to any matter enumerated in this List.
 
790   Inserted by Constitution (Fourth Amendment) Act, 1975 (71 of 1975), Section 13 (with effect from November 21, 1975).

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