Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 209 · Decided 25 March 2004
Special Reference NO. 1 of 2001 v. -
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 209 · [2004] 3 S.C.R. 534
- Case number
- SPECIAL REFERENCE CASE No. 1/2001
- Decided
- 25 March 2004
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, P. VENKATARAMA REDDI, B.N. SRIKRISHNA, G.P. MATHUR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 246, 143(1)
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 246 and Schedule VII list I Entry 53 and list II Entry 25-­ Gujarat Gas (Regulation of Transmission, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2001-­ C legislative competence of the State legislature to enact the Act-Held: The provisions relating to natural gas or and the Act to that extent is ultra vires the Constitution. Article 246 Schedule VII list I Entry 53-"Petroleum and petroleum D products "-legislative competence to enact legislation on "natural gas"­ Held: Natural gas and liquefied natural gas are included in the
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