Law Commission Term Extended to August 31, 2024

India Law Commission Notifications

Published February 22nd, 2023

Detected March 27th, 2026

Summary

The Law Commission of India has extended the term of the Twenty-second Law Commission. The extension is effective until August 31, 2024, maintaining the existing composition and terms of service for the Chairperson and members.

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This notification formally extends the term of the Twenty-second Law Commission of India. The extension is granted until August 31, 2024. The composition of the commission, which includes a full-time Chairperson, four full-time Members (including a Member-Secretary), and ex officio members from the Department of Legal Affairs and Legislative Department, remains unchanged.

This extension primarily affects the operational timeline of the Law Commission itself. For external regulated entities, there are no immediate compliance actions required. The primary implication is the continued operation and potential output of the Law Commission in its advisory and law reform capacity until the new deadline.

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󰬎󰬾 . ..- 33004/99 REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99

..-..-.-22022023-243792 xxxGIDHxxx xxxGIDExxx CG-DL-E-22022023-243792

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EXTRAORDINARY

 I—󰫼  1

PART I—Section 1

󰭈  󰭈

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

  󰬁  󰭃

( 󰫦 )

  󰲑󰬉, 22 , 2023  :   󰰗   󰲒  31 󰬎, 2024     󰰗 .. -60011/225/2022-󰭈.III (..).— 󰫯 .. -45012/1/2018-󰭈 III

(..) 󰲑 21 , 2020,  󰬴 󰰗   22󰰗   󰲒   31 󰬎, 2024  

  󰲇 󰲒  󰱨 󰭈 󰲒  , 󰰗 󰱽  󰰚 󰫦: - (i)  󰫦 󰬀󰫤; (ii)  󰫦 󰬎 (󰬎- ); (iii) ,  󰫦 ,  󰬎  󰰉 󰰗; (iv) ,  ,  󰬎  󰰉 󰰗;  (v)   󰬎󰰣   󰰎

1159 GI/2023 (1)

No. 52] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2023/PHALGUNA 3, 1944 . 52]  󰲑󰬉, ,  22, 2023/󰬉  3, 1944

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No. A-60011/225/2022-Admn. III (LA).—In continuation of the Order No. F. No. A-45012/1/2018-Admn.
III (LA) dated the 21 February, 2020, the sanction of the President is hereby accorded for extension of the term of the stTwenty-second Law Commission of India upto 31 August, 2024 consisting of the following, namely,- st (i) a full-time Chairperson; (ii) four full-time Members (including Member-Secretary); (iii) Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs as ex officio Member; (iv) Secretary, Legislative Department as ex officio Member; and (v) not more than five part-time Members.
The sanction of the President is also accorded to the extension of tenure of the Chairperson and the Members
(Full-time and Part-time) of the Twenty-second Law Commission of India, on the existing terms and conditions upto 31 August, 2024 namely,- st
The Headquarters of the Law Commission shall be at New Delhi.
The expenditure involved during the extended term of the Twenty-second Law Commission of India is
debitable to the Major Head 2070 – Other Administrative Services – Minor Head 00.105 – Special Commissions of Enquiry – 01 – Law Commission, under Demand No.65, Ministry of Law and Justice, in so far as the current financial year 2022-23 is concerned. As regards the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25, the expenditure will be met from the corresponding Budgetary Grants that may be voted by the Parliament for the respective years.
This aforesaid expenditure has the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure), vide
February, 2023 and the approval of the Cabinet, vide their their OM No. 3(44)E.Coord./2018 dated 16thcommunication No.7/CM/2023 dated 22 February, 2023. nd Dr. RAJIV MANI, Addl. Secy. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. Mr. Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi Chairperson 09.11.2022 31.08.2024 (1) S.No Name Designation Date of initial Tenure Mr. Justice K.T. Sankaran, Full-time Member 09.11.2022 31.08.2024 (2) Prof. Anand Paliwal, Full-time Member 10.11.2022 31.08.2024 (3) Appointment extended upto Prof. D.P. Verma, Full-time Member 14.11.2022 31.08.2024 (4) Prof. Raka Arya, Part-time Member 10.11.2022 31.08.2024 (6) Retired Chief Justice, Karnataka High Academician, Mohanlal Sukhadia Academician, formerly at Banaras Hindu Shri M. Karunanithi, Part-time Member 09.11.2022 31.08.2024 (5) Academician, National Law Institute Court, Karnataka University, Udaipur, Rajasthan Retired Judge, Kerala High Court, Kerala University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Advocate, Madurai, Tamil Nadu University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh MANOJ KUMAR Digitally signed by MANOJ KUMAR VERMA VERMADate: 2023.02.22 22:50:10 +05'30'