Grants for public purposes: executive authority to fund activities despite absence of legislative competence restrictions. The Union or a State may make grants for any public purpose from its revenues, and this power to defray expenditure may be exercised notwithstanding that the purpose is not one with respect to which Parliament or the State Legislature may make laws; the financial authority to grant is therefore independent of the legislature's law-making competence.
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Grants for public purposes: executive authority to fund activities despite absence of legislative competence restrictions.
The Union or a State may make grants for any public purpose from its revenues, and this power to defray expenditure may be exercised notwithstanding that the purpose is not one with respect to which Parliament or the State Legislature may make laws; the financial authority to grant is therefore independent of the legislature's law-making competence.
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