Central Government Notifies Amendment to Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 [Read Notification]
Central Government Notifies – Amendment to Tribunals Reforms Act – TAXSCAN
Central Government Notifies – Amendment to Tribunals Reforms Act – TAXSCAN
The Central Government notified the Amendment to the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021.
The Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 was passed by the Parliament in August 2021. The Tribunals Reforms Act replaced the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021. The Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021 was promulgated in April 2021. The law sought to provide for uniform terms and conditions of the various members of the Tribunal and abolish certain tribunals, as a part of its bid to rationalize the tribunals.
The Central Government notified the Tribunals Reforms Act 2021 to lay down terms and conditions for Service, Tenure of Members of Tribunals against the SC’s Ruling. The Act while prescribing the Service conditions said that the minimum age requirement of 50 years still finds a place in the Bill. Similarly, the tenure for the Chairperson and the members of the tribunal remained four years.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 (33 of 2021), the Central Government made the following rules to amend the Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2021, namely: -
The notification also stated that the Rules may be called as the Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Amendment Rules, 2023 and that the Rules shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
The Notification also proposed that in the Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2021, in rule 5, after sub-rule (2), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely: -
“(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in rule 3, a person holding or has held the post of Chairperson or Member, as the case may be, of any Tribunal shall be eligible for re-appointment.’’
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