According to Article 254(1), if a law made by the Legislature of a State is repugnant to any provision of a law made by Parliament which Parliament is competent to enact, or to any provision of an existing law with respect to one of the matters in the Concurrent List, then the law made by Parliament, whether passed before or after the law made by the Legislature of the State, or, as the case may be, the existing law, shall prevail and the law made by the Legislature of the State shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void. Article 254(2) provides for a situation where a State law on a Concurrent List matter, repugnant to a Central law, can prevail in that State if it has received the assent of the President. However, Parliament still retains the power to enact a law on the same matter, including a law adding to, amending, varying, or repealing the State law.
The Constitutional provision relevant for solving questions of repugnancy between a Central Law and a State Law is found in
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