Part XII- Finance, Property, Contracts and
Suits.--Arts. 298-300.
- (b) the said executive power of each State shall, in so far as such trade or business or such purpose is not one with respect to which the State Legislature may make laws, be subject to legislation by Parliament.]
Contracts.
[१]299. (1) All contracts made in the exercise of the executive power of the Union or of a State shall be expressed to be made by the President, or by the Governor [२]* * * of the State, as the case may be, and all such contracts and aH assurances of property made in the exercise of that power shall be executed on behalf of the President or the Governor [२]* * *by such persons and in such manner as he may direct or authorise.
(2) Neither the President nor the Governor [३]* * * shall be personally liable in respect of any contract or assurance made or executed for the purposes of this Constitution or for the purposes of any enactment relating to the Government of India heretofore in force, nor shall any person making or executing any such contractor assurance on behalf of any of them be personally liable in respect thereof.
Suits and proceeding.
[१]300. (1) The Government of India may sue or be sued by the name of the Union of India and the Government of a State may sue or be sued by the name of the State and may, subject to any provisions which may be made by Act of Parliament or of the Legislature of such State enacted by virtue of powers conferred by this Constitution, sue or be sued in relation to their respective affairs in the like cases as the Dominion of India and the corresponding Provinces or the corresponding Indian States might have sued or been sued if this Constitution had not been enacted.
- (2) If at the commencement of this Constitution—
- (a) any legal proceedings are pending to which the Dominion of India is a party, the Union of India shall be deemed to be substituted for the Dominion in those proceedings; and
- (b) any legal proceedings are pending to which a Province or an Indian State is a party, the corresponding State shall be deemed to be substituted for the Province or the Indian State in those proceedings.
- ↑ १.० १.१ In its application to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, references to the State or States shall not be construed as references to that State.,
- ↑ २.० २.१ The words for the Rajpramukh" omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956,s.92 and Sch.,
- ↑ The words "nor the Rajpramukh" omitted, ibid.,
