Article 368 of Constitution of India "Power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and procedure therefor"
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution,
Parliament may in exercise of its constituent power amend by
way of addition, variation or repeal any provision of this
Constitution in accordance with the procedure laid down in
this Article.
(2) An amendment of this Constitution may be initiated only
by the introduction of a Bill for the purpose in either
House of Parliament, and when the Bill is passed in each
House by a majority of the total membership of that House
present and voting, [it shall be presented to the President
who shall give his assent to the Bill and thereupon] the
Constitution shall stand amended in accordance with the
terms of the Bill:
Provided that if such amendment seeks to make any change in
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(a) Article 54, Article 55, Article 73, Article 162 or
Article 241, or
(b) Chapter IV of Part V, Chapter V of Part VI, or
Chapter I of Part XI, or
(c) any of the Lists in the Seventh Schedule, or
(d) the representation of States in Parliament, or
(e) the provisions of this Article, the amendment shall also
require to be ratified by the Legislature of not less than
one-half of the States by resolution to that effect passed
by those Legislatures before the Bill making provision for
such amendment is presented to the President for assent.
(3) Nothing in Article 13 shall apply to any amendment made
under this Article.
(4) No amendment of this Constitution (including the
provisions of Part III) made or purporting to have been made
under this Article whether before or after the commencement
of Section 55 of the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment)
Act, 1976 shall be called in question in any court on any
ground.
(5) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that
there shall be no limitation whatever on the constituent
power of Parliament to amend by way of addition, variation
or repeal the provisions of this Constitution under this
Article.
Article 369 of Constitution of India "Temporary power to Parliament to make laws with respect to certain matters in the State List as if they were matters in the Concurrent List"
Notwithstanding anything in this
Constitution, Parliament shall, during a period of five
years from the commencement of this constitution, have power
to make laws with respect to the following matters as if
they were enumerated in the Concurrent List, namely:-
(a) trade and commerce within a State in, and in production,
supply and distribution of, cotton and woollen textiles, raw
cotton (including ginned cotton and unginned cotton or kapas),
cotton seed, paper (including newsprint), foodstuffs
(including edible oilseeds and oil), cattle fodder
(including oil-cakes and other concentrates), coal
(including coke and derivatives of coal), iron, steel and
mica;
(b) offences against laws with respect to any of the matters
mentioned in clause (a), jurisdiction and powers of all
courts except the Supreme Court with respect to any of those
matters, and fees in respect of any of those matters but not
including fees taken in any court; but any law made by
Parliament, which Parliament would not but for the
provisions of this Article have been competent to make,
shall, to the extent of the in-competency, cease to have
effect on the expiration of the said period, except as
respects things done or omitted to be done before the
expiration thereof.