The Reformed Constitution of British India

30. Criminal Law, including criminal procedure.

31. Central police organization.

32. Control of arms and ammunition.

33. Central agencies and institutions for research (including observatories) and for professional or technical training or promotion of special studies.

34. Ecclesiastical administration, including European cemeteries.

41. Legislation in regard to any provincial subject, in so far as such subject is in Part II of this Schedule stated to be subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature, and any powers relating to such subject reserved by legislation to the GovernorGeneral in Council.

42. Territorial changes, other than intra-provincial, and declaration of laws in connection therewith.

43. Regulation of ceremonial, titles, orders, precedence and civil uniform.

44. Immovable property acquired by, or maintained at, the cost of the Governor-General in Council.

45. The Public Service Commission.

46. All matters expressly excepted by the provisions of Part II of the Schedule from inclusion among provincial subjects.

47. All other matters not included among provincial usbjects under Part II of this Schedule.

PART II.

Provincial Subjects.

1. Local self-Government, that is to say, matters relating to the constitution and powers of municipal corporations, improvement trusts, district boards, mining boards of health, and other local authorities established in a province for the purpose of local self-goverument, exclusive of matters arising under the Cantonments Act 1910; subject to legislation by the Indian legislature as regards:

(a) the powers of such authorities to borrow otherwise than from a provincial Government, and

(b) the levying by such authorities of taxation not included in schedule II to the Scheduled Taxes Rules.

2. Medical Administration, including hospitals, dispensaries and asylums and provision for medical education.

3. Public health and sanitation and vital statistics; subject to legislation by the Indian legislature in respect to infectious and contagious diseases to such extent as may be declared by any Act of the Indian Legislature.

4. Pilgrimages within British India.

5. Education provided that

(a) the following subjects shall be excluded, namely:(i) the Benares Hindu University, and such other Universities constituted after the commencement of these rules, as may be declared by the Governor-General in Council to be central subjects, and

(ii) Chiefs' Colleges and any institution maintained by the Governor-General in Council for the benefit of members of His Majesty's Forces or of other public servants or of the children of such members or servants; and

(b) the following subjects shall be subject to legislation. by the Indian Legislature, namely;

(i) the control of the establishments and the regulation of the constitutions and functions of Universities constituted after the commencement of these rules, and

(ii) the definition of the jurisdiction of any University outside the province in which it is situated, and

(iii) for a period of five years from the date of the commencement of these rules, the Calcutta University and the control and organization of secondary education in the Presidency of Bengal.

6. Public works included under the following heads, namely:

(a) construction and maintenance of provincial buildings used or intended for any purpose in connection with the administration of the province; and care of historical monuments, with the exception of ancient monuments as defined in section 2 (1) of the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904, which are for the time being declared to be protected monuments under section 3 (1) of this Act; provided that the GovernorGeneral in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India remove any such monument from the operation of this exception;

(b) roads, bridges, ferries, tunnels, ropeways, and causeways, and other means of communication, subject to such conditions as regards control over construction and maintenance of means of communication declared by the GovernorGeneral in Council to be of military importance, and as regards incidence of special expenditure connected therewith, as the Governor-General in Council may prescribe;

(d) light and feeder railways and extra-municipal tramways in so far as provision for their construction and management is made by provincial legislation, subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature in the case of any such railway or tramway which is in physical connection with a main line or is built on the same gauge as an adjacent main line.

Water supplies, irrigation and canals, drainage and embankments, water storage, and water power; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature with regard to matters of

inter-provincial concern or affecting the relations of a province with any other territory.

8. Land Revenue administration, as declared under the following heads; namely:-

(a) assessment and collection of land revenue;

(b) maintenance of land records, survey for revenue purposes, records of rights;

(d) Courts of Wards, incumbered and attached estates; (e) land improvement and agricultural loans;

(f) colonization and disposal of Crown lands and alienation of land revenue; and

(g) management of government estates.

9. Famine Relief.

10. Agriculture, including research institutes, experimental and demonstration farms, introduction of improved methods, provision for agricultural education; protection against destructive insects and pests and prevention of plant diseases; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislatature in respect to destructive insects and pests and plant diseases to such extent as may be declared by any Act of the Indian Legislature,

11. Civil Veterinary Department, including provision for veterinary training, improvement of stock, and prevention of animal diseases, subject to legislation by the Indian legislature in respect to animal diseases to such extent as may be declared by any Act of the Indian Legislature.

12. Fisheries.

13. Co-operative Societies.

14. Forests, including preservation of game therein; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature as regards disforestation of reserved forests.

15. Land acquisition; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature.

16. Excise, that is to say, the control of production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase, and sale of alcoholic liquor and intoxicating drugs, and the levying of excise duties and license fees on or in relation to such articles, but excluding, in the case of opium, control of cultivation, manufacture and sale for export.

17. Administration of justice, including constitution, powers, maintenance, and organisation of courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction within the province; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature as regards High Courts, Chief Courts and Courts of Judicial Commissioners and any courts of criminal Jurisdiction.

19. Administrators General and Official Trustees; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature.

20. Non-judicial stamps, subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature, and judicial stamps, subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature as regards amount of court fees levied in relation to suits and proceedings in the High Courts under their original jurisdiction.

21. Registration of deeds and documents; subject to legislation by Indian legislature.

22. Registration of births, deaths, and marriages; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature for such classes as the Indian Legislature may determine.

23. Religious and Charitable endowments.

24. Development of mineral resources which are Government property, subject to rules made or sanctioned by the Secretary of State, but not including the regulation of mines.

25. Development of industries, including industrial research and technical education.

26. Industrial matters included under the following heads, namely:

(a) Factories;

(b) Settlement of labour disputes;

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