{"id":213659,"date":"2022-11-09T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=213659"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:35:40","slug":"centre-constitutes-22nd-law-commission-what-role-does-this-body-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-constitutes-22nd-law-commission-what-role-does-this-body-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre constitutes 22nd Law Commission: what role does this body play?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cCentre constitutes 22nd Law Commission: what role does this body play?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 9th November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government of India <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has constituted the 22nd Law Commission of India with former Karnataka High Court Chief Justice, Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi as its Chairperson.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Law Commission of India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/law-commission-of-india-as-a-statutory-body\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the 22nd Law Commission of India<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 22nd Law Commission of India <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is headed by Justice Awasthi. It would have a tenure of three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mandate of the commission: a) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To identify laws which are no longer needed or relevant and can be immediately repealed<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>b)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To examine the existing laws in the light of Directive Principles of State Policy and suggest ways of improvement and reform. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>c)<\/strong> Suggest legislations as might be necessary to implement the Directive Principles and to attain the objectives set out in the Preamble of the Constitution and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>d) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revise the Central Acts of general importance so as to simplify them and remove anomalies, ambiguities and inequities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre constitutes 22nd Law Commission: what role does this body play?\u201d published in The Hindu on 9th November 2022. What is the News? The government of India has constituted the 22nd Law Commission of India with former Karnataka High Court Chief Justice, Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-constitutes-22nd-law-commission-what-role-does-this-body-play\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre constitutes 22nd Law Commission: what role does this body play?<\/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":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-213659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704699691},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213659","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=213659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}