📜 Official Text

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the executive power of the Union shall extend - (a) to the matters with respect to which Parliament has power to make laws; and (b) to the exercise of such rights, authority and jurisdiction as are exercisable by the Government of India by virtue of any treaty or agreement: Provided that the executive power referred to in sub-clause (a) shall not, save as expressly provided, extend in any State to matters on which the State Legislature also has power to make laws. (2) Until otherwise provided by Parliament, a State may continue to exercise executive power or functions it could exercise immediately before the Constitution's commencement.