{"id":7615,"date":"2022-11-08T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:18:57","slug":"law-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/law-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Law Commission:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The appointment comes after more than two years after the 22nd Law Commission was notified on February 24, 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Status<\/strong>: Law Commission of India is a\u00a0<strong>non-statutory body<\/strong>\u00a0and is constituted by a notification of the Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Charter Act 1833<\/strong>\u00a0which was enacted by the British Parliament provided for the establishment of a Law Commission for consolidation and codification of Indian Laws.<\/li>\n<li>In 1835, Lord Macaulay was appointed as Chairman of the First Law Commission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tenure<\/strong>: The tenure of Law Commission is for\u00a0<strong>three years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The Law Commission shall, on a reference made to it by the Central Government or suo-motu, undertake research in law and review of existing laws in India for making reforms therein and enacting new legislations.<\/li>\n<li>It shall also undertake studies and research for bringing reforms in the justice delivery systems for elimination of delay in procedures, speedy disposal of cases, reduction in cost of litigation etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition &amp; Eligibility:<\/strong>\u00a0It has no fixed composition, no defined eligibility criteria for its chair and members, and no set functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ex-cj-rituraj-awasthi-is-law-commission-chief\/article66109001.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Commission of India is an executive body established by an order of the Government of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}