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Appointment to Tribunals – Finance Act, 2017
November 23 , 2019
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- The Supreme Court has passed an interim order that said the appointments to tribunals “shall be on the basis of existing statutes” and not the rules framed under the Finance Act of 2017.
- The Finance Act had given the Centre the power to govern appointments, removal and service conditions of the members of judicial tribunals like National Green Tribunal, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.
- The petitioners Roger Mathew and Revenue Bar Association had challenged the Finance Act, 2017, particularly Part XIV on various grounds.
- Part XIV had repealed provisions relating to the administration of 26 Tribunals established under diverse central laws and gave Union government the powers to frame rules by virtue of Section 184.
- The court had struck it down and asked Union government to frame new rules.
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