{"id":118861,"date":"2021-07-15T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=118861"},"modified":"2021-07-15T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:10:27","slug":"supreme-court-strikes-down-tribunals-ordinance-provision-fixing-4-year-term-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-strikes-down-tribunals-ordinance-provision-fixing-4-year-term-for-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court strikes down Tribunals Ordinance provision fixing 4-year term for members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/supreme-court-strikes-down-tribunals-ordinance-provision-fixing-4-year-term-for-members-7405204\/\">Indian Express<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Supreme Court in a 2:1 verdict has struck down certain provisions of the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance,2021.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What was the case?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The judgement came on a<\/strong> petition by the Madras Bar Association, which challenged the Tribunals Reforms Ordinance, 2021 to the extent it amends Sections 184 and 186 of the Finance Act 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>Sections 184 and 186 of the Finance Act 2017 gave Central Government rule-making power in relation to the mode of appointment, qualifications, terms of service, allowance of members of various tribunals.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/promulgation-of-tribunals-reforms-ordinance-2021\/\">Click Here to Read the Tribunals Reforms Ordinance, 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the provisions struck down by the Supreme Court?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Appointment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Supreme Court <\/strong>has struck down the provisions requiring a minimum age for appointment as Chairperson or Members as 50 years and prescribing the tenure of four years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The court said that these provisions <\/strong>were contrary to the principles of separation of powers, independence of judiciary, rule of law, and Article 14 of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further<\/strong>, the court said that the term of Chairperson of a tribunal shall be five years or till she or he attains the age of 70, whichever is earlier. Further, the term of a Member of a tribunal shall be five years or till she or he attains the age of 67, whichever is earlier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Appointment Duration<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The provision prescribing<\/strong> that the Union Government should make appointments &#8220;preferably within three months&#8221; of recommendation by the Search-cum-Selection committee has been struck down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Remarks made by the Supreme Court while delivering judgement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Impartiality, independence, fairness, <\/strong>and reasonableness in decision-making are the hallmarks of the judiciary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If impartiality is the soul of the judiciary<\/strong>, independence is the lifeblood of the judiciary. Hence, without independence, impartiality cannot thrive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The judge who dissented <\/strong>against the verdict said that the \u201ccourts can declare law, interpret law, remove obvious lacunae and fill up the gaps, but they cannot entrench upon in the field of legislation\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express What is the News? The Supreme Court in a 2:1 verdict has struck down certain provisions of the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance,2021. What was the case? The judgement came on a petition by the Madras Bar Association, which challenged the Tribunals Reforms Ordinance, 2021 to the extent it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-strikes-down-tribunals-ordinance-provision-fixing-4-year-term-for-members\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court strikes down Tribunals Ordinance provision fixing 4-year term for members<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704938297},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}