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- Maritime shipping and navigation, including shipping and navigation on tidal waters; provision of education and training for the mercantile marine and regulation of such education and training provided by States and other agencies.
- Lighthouses, including lightships, beacons and other provision for the safety of shipping and aircraft.
- Ports declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to be major ports, including their delimitation, and the constitution and powers of port authorities therein.
- Port quarantine, including hospitals connected therewith; seamen's and marine hospitals.
- Airways, aircraft and air navigation; provision of aerodromes; regulation and organisation of air traffic and of aerodromes; provision for aeronautical education and training and regulation of such education and training provided by States and other agencies.
- Carriage of passengers and goods by railway, sea or air.
- Posts and telegraphs, telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication.
- Trade and commerce with foreign countries.
- Elections to Parliament, and the offices of President and Vice-President; the Election Commission.
- Salaries and allowances of members of Parliament, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People.
- Powers, privileges and immunities of each House of Parliament and of the members and the committees of each House; enforcement of attendance of persons for giving evidence or producing documents before committee of Parliament or commissions appointed by Parliament.
- Salaries and allowances of the Ministers for the Union; the salaries, allowances, and rights in respect of leave of absence and other conditions of service of the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
- Audit of the accounts of the Union.
- Constitution and organisation of the Supreme Court, and the feed taken therein; persons entitled to practise before the Supreme Court.