The Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021

It received Presidential Assent on 13th August 2021. The Act seeks to dissolve certain existing appellate bodies and transfer their functions such as adjudication of appeals to other existing judicial bodies.

Amendments to the Finance Act, 2017: The Finance Act, 2017 merged tribunals based on domain. It empowered the central government to notify rules on various matters such as

  1. composition of search-cum-selection committees,
  2. qualifications of tribunal members, and
  3. their terms and conditions of service (such as their removal and salaries).

It removes these provisions from the Finance Act, 2017.

Transfer of Functions of Key Appellate Bodies as Proposed under ....

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