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List of powers in federal system

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As given in the annexes of the preliminary draft of the new constitution (Unofficial translation)



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List of federal powers

1. Related to defense and army

a) Protection of national unity and territorial integrity

b) Related to national security


2. Central police, armed police force, national intelligence and investigation department, law and

order

3. Central planning, central bank, financial policy, currency and banking, monetary policy, foreign grants, aids and loan.

4. Monitoring and regulation of telecommunication, central telecom, radio frequency distribution, television and postal service

5. Customs, excise-duty, value added tax (VAT), corporate income tax, individual income tax, passport fee, visa fee, tourism fee, service charge, penalties and fines

6. Royalty received on natural resources

7. Federal civil service, judicial service and other government services

8. Central statistics (national and international standards and qualities)

9. Mega projects for electricity, irrigation and other government and donor-funded projects.

10. Central university, university standard and regulation, central library

11. Central health policy (setting standard, quality and monitoring of the health services, national/special service provider hospitals, traditional treatment services, control of communicable

disease)

12. Federal legislature, federal executive, local level affairs

13. International trades, exchange, ports and quarantines

14. International and inter-province aviation, international airports

15. Foreign and diplomatic affairs, international relations and related to United Nations

16. International treaties and agreements, extradition, mutual legal assistance and international border management

17. National train service and national highways management

18. Laws related to Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, High Courts, District Courts and Judicial Administration

19. Citizenship, passport, visa, and immigration

20. Nuclear energy, atmosphere and space related

21. Intellectual property (including patent, design, copy right)

22. War and defense

23. Factory and production of arms and ammunitions

24. Standards and metrology

25. Mining

26. National and international ecology management

27. Insurance policy

28. Formulating criminal and civil laws

29. Casino and carbon services

30. Constitutional bodies and commission of central importance

31. Issues not listed in the federation, province and local level power or concurrent level power along with issues not mentioned in this constitution and law.

List of provincial powers

1. Provincial police administration as well as law and order

2. Bank and financial institution, cooperatives, and foreign grants and aids with consent from the center

3. Radio, FM, television

4. Tax on remuneration, land and house registration fee, vehicle tax, excise duty, entertainment

tax, advertisement tax, tax on tourism and agricultural income, service charge and penalties and fines

5. Royalty received on natural resources

6. Provincial civil service, judicial service and other government services

7. Provincial statistics

8. Provincial level electricity, irrigation projects and other projects

9. Provincial level university, higher education, libraries and museums

10. Health service

11. Related to provincial assembly, provincial cabinet and special structures.

12. Business within the province

13. Provincial aviation service

14. Provincial railway and provincial highways

15. Provincial investigation bureau

16. Provincial electricity and irrigation projects

17. Infrastructure management and other necessary matters of the government offices in the province

18. Provincial public service commission

19. Land management, record-keeping of the land and land revenue collection

20. Exploration and management of mines

21. Insurance management and operation

22. Protection and use of language, culture, script and religion

23. Management of forest, water resources and ecology within the province

24. Agriculture and livestock development, factories, industrialization, business, transportation, production and sales of alcohol and beverages

25. Books and press

26. Guthi (community trust) management

List of concurrent federal and provincial powers

1. Criminal and civil work procedures and evidences and oath of office (legal recognition, public act and records and judicial process)

2. Supply, distribution, price control, standard and monitoring of essential goods and services

3. Preventive detention, jail and custody management on the matters of national security and management of law and orders

4. Shifting of accused as well as persons in custody and jail from one province to other.

5. Laws related to family affairs (marriage, property transfer, divorce, endangered, orphan, adopted child, successors and joint family).

6. Receiving property, acquisition and creation of rights

7. Matters related to contracts, cooperatives, collaborations and agencies

8. Matters related bankruptcy and insolvency

9. Medicine and pesticides

10. Planning, family planning and population control

11. Acts related to social security and employment, trade union, industrial dispute, labor rights and disputes

12. Medical, legal and other professions

13. Vital registrations

14. Water transportation, environment conservation and bio-diversity

15. Related to mediums of mass communication

16. Preservation of archeological materials, historical monuments and museums

17. Industries and minerals and infrastructures

18. Casino, lottery, vehicles licensing

19. Natural and man-made disaster preparedness, rescue, relief and rehabilitation

20. Tourism, drinking water and sanitation

21. Movies, cinema halls and sports

22. Insurance

23. Poverty alleviation and industrialization

24. Scientific research, science and technology and human resource development

25. Inter-provincial forest, wildlife, birds, mountains, national parks and water uses

26. Land policy and related legal provisions

List of powers for local level

1. Municipal police, community police

2. Cooperatives

3. FM operation

4. Local tax (property tax, house rent tax, fee on registration of houses and land, vehicle tax), service fee, advertisement tax, business tax, land tax (land revenue), fines, entertainment tax

5. Royalty received on natural resources

6. Management of local services

7. Local statistics and record keeping

8. Government-run and donor-funded projects at the local level

9. Primary and secondary education

10. Basic health and sanitation

11. Management of local markets, environment conservation and biological diversity

12. Local roads, rural roads, agriculture roads, irrigation

13. Management of village council, municipal council, district council, local court, reconciliation and mediation

14. Management of local records

15. Distribution of land, building ownership certificates

16. Farming, livestock, management of agro products, veterinary, cooperatives

17. Management of senior citizens, people with physical disability and disables

18. Collection of statistics of unemployed people

19. Management, operation and control of agriculture publicity

20. Registration of individual incidents-- birth, marriage and

death

21. Drinking water, small hydro-projects (alternative energy)

22. Disaster management

23. Conservation of watersheds, wetlands, wildlife, mines and minerals

24. Protection and promotion of language and literature
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