Article 4 - Omission of Article 272 - Constitution (80th Amendment) Act, 2000

Omission of Article 272 . 4. (1) Article 272 of the Constitution shall be omitted . (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where any sum equivalent to the whole or any part of the net proceeds of the Union duties of excise including additional duties of excise which are levied and collected by the Government of India and which has been distributed as grants-in-aid to the States after the 1st day of April, 1996, but before the commencement of this Act, such sum shall be deemed to have been distributed in accordance with the provisions of Article 270, as if Article 272 had been omitted with effect from the 1st day of April, 1996. (3) Any sum equivalent to the whole or any part of the net proceeds of any other tax or duty that has been distributed as grants-in-aid to the States after the 1st day of April, 1996 but before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been distributed in accordance with the provisions of Article 270.