The Council Legislative list, that is, the topics that the AJK government and legislature cannot legislate on, are 53 in number.It is the mother of all concurrent lists. Some interesting topics:
Citizenship
Post and telegraph
Communication
Electricity/energy
Navigation
Copyright
Banking
Insurance
Stock exchanges
Corporations
Highways
Geological surveys
Property
Census
Weights and measures
Extensions of powers of police forces
Railways
Natural resources
Industries
Movement of prisoners
Issues related to infectious and contagious diseases
Population and welfare
Newspapers and printing press
Curriculum
Cinema
Tourism
Customs
Taxes on income (other than agriculture)
Taxes on corporations
Taxes on capital value of assets
Jurisdiction and powers of courts
Offenses against laws
Refugees
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2011.
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