SCHEDULE 5 - List of Federal Power

(Relating to clause (1) of Article 57, and Article 109)


List of Federal Power

  1. Related to defense and army
    1. Protection of national unity and territorial integrity
    2. Related to national security
  2. Central police, armed police force, national intelligence and investigation, peace and security
  3. Central planning, central bank, financial policy, currency and banking, monetary policy, foreign grants, aids and loan.
  4. Monitoring and regulation of telecommunication, central telecom, radio frequency distribution, television and postal service
  5. Customs, excise-duty, value added tax (VAT), corporate income tax, individual income tax, passport fee, visa fee, tourism fee, service charge, penalties and fines
  6. Federal civil service, judicial service and other government services
  7. Central statistics (national and international standards and qualities)
  8. Central level mega projects for electricity, irrigation and other projects
  9. Central university, university standard and regulation, central library
  10. Central health policy (setting standard, quality and monitoring of the health services, national/special service provider hospitals, traditional treatment services, control of communicable diseases
  11. Federal legislature, federal executive, local level affairs, special structures
  12. International trades, exchange, ports and quarantines
  13. Civil aviation, international airports
  14. Foreign and diplomatic affairs, international relations and related to
  15. United Nations
  16. International treaties and agreements, extradition, mutual legal assistance and international border, international border river
  17. National transport policy, train and national highways management
  18. Laws related to Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, High Courts,
  19. District Courts and Judicial Administration
  20. Citizenship, passport, visa, and immigration
  21. Nuclear energy, atmosphere and space related
  22. Intellectual property (including patent, design, copy right)
  23. War and defense
  24. Factory and production of arms and ammunitions
  25. Standards and metrology
  26. Mining, exploration
  27. National and international ecology management, national parks, wildlife reserves and wetlands, national forest policy, carbon services
  28. Insurance policy, securities, cooperative regulations
  29. Land use policy, housing development policy, tourism policy, environment adaptation
  30. Formulating criminal and civil laws
  31. Security press
  32. Social security and poverty alleviation
  33. Constitutional bodies and commissions of national importance
  34. Ancient monuments and places of archaeological importance
  35. Issues not listed in the federation, province and local level power or concurrent level power lists, along with other issues not mentioned in this constitution and law