STATUS OF LAW COMMISSION REPORTS
1. Number of Law Commissions Constituted :
20
2. Number of Reports submitted by the Law Commission :
262
3. Number of Reports submitted by the 20th Law Commission:
19
4. Number of Reports implemented by the Government:
92
5. Number of Reports not accepted by the Government:
16
6. Number of Reports pending:
101
7. Number of Reports for which information is being collected:
52
8. One Law Commission’s Report number 239 was submitted by the Nineteenth Law
Commission on the direction of Hon’ble Supreme Court in Writ Petition (C) No.
341/2004 in the matter of Virender Kumar Ohri Vs. Union of India & Ors., no
action on this Report is to be taken by the Government.
1
Report
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
First Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. M. C. Setalvad 1955-1958)
Name of the Report
year
of Forwarded to
submission
Liability of the State in Torts.
1956
Legislative Deptt.
Parliamentary Legislation relating 1956
M/o Finance
to Sales Tax.
Limitation Act, 1908
1956
Legislative Deptt.
On the proposal that High Courts 1956
Deptt. of Justice
should sit in Benches at different
places in a State.
British Statutes applicable to India. 1957
Legislative Deptt.
Registration Act, 1908
1957
D/o Land Resource
Partnership Act, 1932
1957
M/o
Corporate
Affairs
Sale of Goods Act, 1930
1958
Legislative Deptt.
Specific Relief Act, 1877
1958
Legislative Deptt.
Law
of
Acquisition
and 1958
D/o Land Resource
Requisitioning of Land.
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
1958
D/o
Economic
Affairs
Income Tax Act, 1922
1958
D/o Revenue
Contract Act, 1872
1958
Legislative Deptt.
Reform of Judicial Administration. 1958
D/o Justice
Forwarded
on
*
*
Remarks
*
*
*
Implemented
*
13.07.1957
*
*
Pending
Pending
*
*
*
*
*
Implemented
*
Implemented
*
26.09.1958
*
*
Pending
Implemented
Second Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice T. L. Venkatrama Aiyar 1958-1961)
Law relating to Marriage and 1960
Legislative Deptt.
*
Divorce amongst Christians in
India.
Official Trustees Act, 1913.
1960
Legislative Deptt.
*
Report on Trusts Act, 1882.
1961
Legislative Deptt.
1961
Converts’ Marriage Dissolution 1961
Legislative Deptt.
*
Act, 1866.
The Administrator-General's Act, 1961
Legislative Deptt.
*
1913.
The Law of Hire-Purchase
1961
M/o Finance
*
D/o
Economic 29.03.1962
Marine Insurance
1961
Affairs
Christian Marriage and Matrimonial
Legislative Deptt.
*
1961
Causes Bill,1961
Third Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice J. L. Kapur 1961-1964)
Law of Foreign Marriages.
1962
Legislative Deptt.
The Commission of Inquiry Act, 1962.
M/o Home Affairs
1952
Evidence of Officers about forged 1963
M/o Home Affairs
stamps, currency notes, etc. Section
D/o
Economic
509-A Cr.P.C. as proposed.
Affairs
Insolvency Laws
1964
Legislative
Department
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
1964
Legislative
Department
The Indian Oaths Act, 1873.
1964
Legislative
Department
Fourth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice J. L. Kapur 1964-1968)
Proposal to include certain Social
M/o Home Affairs
and Economic Offences in the 1966
Indian Penal Code
Section 5 of the Central Sales Tax 1967
D/o Revenue
Act, 1956, taxation by the States of
Sales in the course of import.
Section 30(2) of the Indian 1967
Legislative Deptt.
Registration Act, 1908-Extension to
Delhi.
2
*
*
*
*
Pending
*
*
Implemented
Implemented
*
*
28.09.1963
*
Implemented
20.10.1964
Implemented
*
Implemented
*
Implemented
*
Implemented
06.03.1968
Implemented
15.04.1967
Implemented
16.12.1967
Implemented
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
Section 9 of the Code of Criminal 1967
Procedure, 1898-Appointment of
Sessions Judges, Additional Session
Judges and Assistant Sessions
Judges.
Section 44, Code of Criminal 1967
Procedure, 1898.
Indian Registration Act, 1908.
1967
Capital Punishment.
Sections 497, 498 and 499 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898Grant of bail with condition.
The Code of Criminal Procedure,
1898 (Sections 1 to 176).
Indian Post Office Act, 1898.
M/o Home Affairs
01.08.1968
Implemented
M/o Home Affairs
05.03.1970
Implemented
Pending
1967
1967
Legislative
12.11.1970
Department,
D/o
Land Resource
M/o Home Affairs
*
M/o Home Affairs
05.03.1970
1967
M/o Home Affairs
17.03.1970
Implemented
1968
D/o Posts
27.08.1970
Pending
*
Implemented
09.09.1970
Implemented
12.02.1970
Implemented
24.12.1971
22.05.1972
Not Accepted
*
16.10.1971
Implemented
Fifth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. K. V. K. Sundaram 1968-1971)
Punishment of imprisonment for 1968
M/o Home Affairs
life under the Indian Penal Code.
Law relating to attendance of 1969
M/o Home Affairs
Prisoners in Courts.
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1969
M/o Home Affairs
1898.
Indian Penal Code.
1971
M/o Home Affairs
Offences against the National 1971
M/o Home Affairs
Security.
The Appellate jurisdiction of the 1971
Legislative Deptt.
Supreme Court in Civil Matters.
Sixth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice Dr. P. B. Gajendragadkar 1971-1974)
Civil Appeals to the Supreme Court 1971
D/o Justice
*
on a Certificate of Fitness.
The Constitution (Twenty-fifth 1971
Legislative
*
Amendment) Bill,1971.
Department
The Trial and Punishment of Social 1972
D/o
Economic 09.11.1972
and Economic Offences.
Affairs
Some questions under the Code of 1972
M/o Home Affairs
30.03.1973
Criminal Procedure Bill, 1970.
The Proposal for inclusion of 1972
D/o Revenue
10.05.1973
agricultural income in the total
income for the purpose of
determining the rate of tax under
the Income-tax Act, 1961.
The Proposal to include persons 1972
M/o Home Affairs
24.10.1972
connected with Public examination
within the definition of "Public
Servant" in the Indian Penal Code.
Compensation for injuries caused 1972
M/o Road Transport 07.04.1973
by automobiles in hit-and-run cases.
& Highways
Estate Duty on Property acquired 1972
D/o Expenditure
15.03.1973
after death.
Effect of the Pensions Act, 1871 on 1972
D/o Personnel & 15.03.1973
the right to sue for pensions of
Training,
D/o
retired members of the public
Revenue
services.
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. 1973
Legislative
*
Department
Rate of interest after decree and 1973
Legislative
05.07.1973
interest on costs under sections 34
Department
and 35, of the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908.
Statutory Provisions as to Notice of 1973
M/o Home Affairs, 26.07.1973
suit other than section 80, Civil
M/o Defence, M/o
3
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
*
Implemented
*
Implemented
Not Accepted
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Procedure Code.
57.
Benami Transactions.
58.
Structure and Jurisdiction of the 1974
Higher Judiciary.
59.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and 1974
Special Marriage Act, 1954.
The General Clauses Act, 1897.
1974
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
1973
Certain problems connected with 1974
power of the States to levy a tax on
the sale of goods and with the
Central Sales Tax Act, 1956.
Seventh Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice Dr. P. B. Gajendragadkar 1974-1977)
Compensation Act, 1974
M/o Labour
1974
Workmen's
1923.
The Interest Act, 1839.
1975
Married Women's Property Act, 1976
1874.
67.
68
69
The Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
The Powers of Attorney Act, 1882
The Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
1977
1977
1977
70
The Transfer of Property Act, 1882.
1977
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
D/o
Economic
Affairs
M/o Women and
Child Development
Legislative
Department
D/o
Economic
Affairs, Legislative
Department
D/o Revenue
Legislative Deptt.
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Labour
Legislative
Department
The Suppression of Immoral Traffic 1975
in Women and Girls Act, 1956.
Recognition of Foreign Divorces
1976
66.
71
Shipping,
D/o
Revenue
Legislative
*
Department
M/o Labour, M/o 27.04.1976
Home Affairs, D/o
Justice
Legislative
1974
Department
Legislative
1974
Department
D/o Revenue
19.08.1974
Eighth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice H. R. Khanna, 1977-1979)
The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955- 1978
Legislative
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage
Department
as a ground of divorce.
Restriction on practice after being a 1978
D/o Justice
permanent Judge, Article 220 of the
Constitution.
Criminal liability for failure by 1978
M/o Home Affairs
Husband to pay maintenance or
permanent alimony granted to the
wife By the court under certain
enactments or rules of law.
Proposal to amend the Indian 1978
M/o Home Affairs,
Evidence Act, 1872 so as to render
Legislative
Admissible certain statements made
Department
By witnesses before Commission of
Inquiry
and
other
statutory
authorities.
Disciplinary Jurisdiction under the 1978
D/o Justice
Advocates Act, 1961.
Arbitration Act, 1940.
1978
Legislative
Department
Delay and arrears in trial courts.
1979
D/o Justice
Congestion of under trial prisoners 1979
M/o Home Affairs
in jails.
Delay and Arrears in High Courts 1979
D/o Justice
and other Appellate Courts.
Method of Appointment of Judges.
1979
D/o Justice
4
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Pending
22.03.1975
Implemented
22.03.1975
Implemented
1976
Pending
06.08.1976
Pending
20.05.1977
*
1977
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
1977
Pending
*
Implemented
27.04.1978
Implemented
01.08.1978
Not Accepted
28.06.1980
Not Accepted
*
Implemented
*
Implemented
20.05.1981
26.02.1979
Implemented
Implemented
20.05.1981
Implemented
12.10.1979
Implemented
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
Ninth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice P. V. Dixit 1979-1980)
Hindu Widows Re-marriage Act, 1979
Legislative
1856.
Department
Effect of nomination under section 1980
D/o
Economic
39, Insurance Act, 1938.
Affairs
The Guardians and Wards Act, 1980
Legislative
1890 and certain provisions of the
Department
Hindu Minority and Guardianship
Act, 1956.
Rape and allied offences-some 1980
M/o Home Affairs
questions of substantive law,
procedure and evidence.
Claims for compensation under 1980
M/o Road Transport
Chapter 8 of the Motor Vehicles
and Highways
Act, 1939.
The Partition Act, 1893.
1980
Legislative
Department
Identification of Prisoners Act, 1980
M/o Home Affairs
1920.
Tenth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice K. K. Mathew 1981-1985)
Governmental
Privilege
in 1983
M/o Home Affairs,
Evidence: Sections 123-124 and
Legislative
162, Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and
Department
Articles 74 and 163 of the
Constitution.
The Limitation Act, 1963.
1983
Legislative
Department
The Grounds of Divorce amongst 1983
Legislative
Christians in India: section 10, of
Department
the Indian Divorce Act, 1869.
Dowry deaths and law reform: 1983
Legislative
Amending the Hindu Marriage Act,
Department,
M/o
1955, the Indian Penal Code, 1860
Home Affairs
and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
Damages in applications for 1983
D/o
Justice,
Judicial Review Recommendations
Legislative
for legislation.
Department,
M/o
Home Affairs
Disclosure
of
sources
of 1983
M/o Information &
information by mass media.
Broadcasting
Evidence obtained illegally or 1983
Legislative
improperly: proposed section 166A,
Department
Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
Constitutional Division within the 1984
D/o Justice
Supreme Court- A proposal for.
Repeal of certain obsolete Central 1984
D/o Justice, D/o
Acts.
Economic Affairs,
M/o Labour, M/o
Home
Affairs,
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Petroleum,
D/o
Revenue
Section 28, Indian Contract Act, 1984
Legislative
1872: prescriptive clauses in
Department
contracts.
Sections 24 to 26, Hindu Marriage 1984
Legislative
Act, 1955: Orders for interim
Department
maintenance and orders for the
maintenance
of
children
in
matrimonial proceedings.
Oral and written arguments in the 1984
D/o Justice
Higher courts.
Litigation by and against the 1984
Legislative
5
*
*
*
*
27.08.1980
Pending
12.06.1980
Implemented
*
*
31.05.1982
Pending
05.09.1981
Pending
27.05.1985(
MHA)
01.03.1985
(LD)
*
04.02.1987
Pending
24.08.1984
*
26.04.1984
*
05.05.1984
*
16.05.1984
Not accepted
27.04.1984
*
05.02.1985
Not Accepted
01.09.1984
*
10.09.1984
*
*
*
25.08.1984
Implemented
05.09.1984
*
101
102
103
104
105
Government:
some
recommendations for reform.
Freedom of Speech and Expression 1984
under
Article
19
of
the
Constitution: recommendation to
extend it to Indian Corporations.
Section 122(1) of the Code of 1984
Criminal
Procedure,
1973:
imprisonment for breach of bond
for keeping the peace with sureties.
Unfair Terms in Contract.
1984
Section 103A, Motor Vehicles Act, 1984
1939: effect of Transfer of a Motor
Vehicle on Insurance.
107
108
Law of Citizenship.
Promissory Estoppel.
109
110
Obscene
and
Indecent 1985
advertisements
and
Displays:
sections 292-293, Indian Penal
Code.
The Indian Succession Act, 1925.
1985
111
The Fatal Accidents Act, 1855.
112
Section 45 of the Insurance Act, 1985
1938.
Injuries
in
Police
Custody- 1985
Suggested section 114B, Evidence
Act.
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
Legislative
Department
D/o Justice
The Judicial Officers' Protection 1984
Act, 1850.
Quality Control and Inspection of 1984
consumer goods.
106
113
Department,
D/o
Justice
M/o Home Affairs,
M/o Commerce &
Industry,
M/o
Information
&
Broadcasting
M/o Home Affairs
1984
1984
1985
06.02.1985
(MHA, C&I)
30.04.1985(I
&B)
Not accepted
06.02.1985
Pending
05.02.1985
*
06.02.1985
Implemented
D/o
Food,
D/o 16.04.1985(F
Industrial Policy & ood)
Promotion
21.02.1986(I
PP)
M/o Commerce & 28.02.1985(S
Industry, M/o Road hipping)
Transport
and 24.06.1986(C
Highways
&I)
M/o Home Affairs
29.05.1985
Legislative
29.05.1985
Department
M/o Home Affairs, 28.05.1985
M/o Information &
Broadcasting
Implemented
Legislative
Department
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Labour,
D/o
Economic Affairs
D/o
Economic
Affairs
M/o Home Affairs
29.03.1989
*
08.01.1986
Pending
08.01.1986
*
14.01.1986
*
Eleventh Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice D. A. Desai 1985-1988)
Gram Nyayalaya.
1986
D/o Justice
16.12.1986
Tax Courts.
1986
D/o Justice, D/o 16.12.1986
Revenue,
M/o
Commerce
&
Industry
Formation of an All India Judicial 1986
D/o Justice
14.05.1987
Service.
Training of Judicial Officers.
1986
D/o Justice
14.05.1987
Method
of
appointment
to 1986
D/o Justice
14.05.1987
subordinate courts/ subordinate
judiciary.
Access to Exclusive Forum for 1987
M/o Road Transport 08.05.1987
Victims of Motor Accidents under
& Highways
Motor Vehicles Act, 1939.
Manpower Planning in Judiciary: A 1987
D/o Justice
08.05.1987
Blueprint
A New Forum for Judicial 1987
D/o Justice
08.05.1987
Appointments.
Forum for National Uniformity in 1987
M/o Labour
23.12.1987
Labour Adjudication.
Decentralisation of Administration 1988
D/o
Higher 19.02.1988
of
Justice:Disputes
Involving
Education
Centres of Higher Education.
The High Court Arrears- A Fresh 1988
Legislative
02.06.1988(D
6
*
*
Pending
Accepted
Implemented
*
Implemented
Implemented
Not Accepted
*
Pending
Pending
*
Pending
Pending
Look.
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
The Supreme Court- A Fresh Look.
Government and Public Sector
Undertaking Litigation Policy and
Strategies.
Resource Allocation for Infrastructural Services in Judicial
Administration (A continuum of the
Report on Manpower Planning in
Judiciary: A Blueprint).
Cost of Litigation.
Urban Litigation – Mediation as
alternative to Adjudication.
Department,
Justice
D/o OJ)
03.05.1990(L
D)
D/o Justice
16.05.1988
Department
of 16.05.1988
Public Enterprises
1988
1988
1988
D/o Justice
1988
1988
D/o Justice
17.08.1988
D/o Justice, M/o 27.03.1989
Urban Development (DOJ)
07.08.1990
(UD)
Legislative Deptt.
*
D/o Justice, Bar 16.03.1989
Council of India
Benami Transactions:A Continuum. 1988
Role of legal profession in 1988
Administration of Justice.
Twelfth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice M. P. Thakkar 1988-1991)
Need for Amendment of the 1989
M/o Home Affairs
Provisions of the Chapter IX of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
in order to ameliorate the hardship
and mitigate the distress of
Neglected Women, Children and
Parents.
Removal of Discrimination against 1989
Legislative
Women in matters relating to
Department
Guardianship and Custody of Minor
Children and Elaboration of the
Welfare Principle.
Removing Deficiencies in certain 1989
M/o Labour
Provisions of the Workmen's
Compensation Act, 1923.
Women in Custody.
1989
M/o Women &
Child Development,
M/o Home Affairs,
M/o
Health
&
Family Welfare
Conflicts in High Court Decisions 1990
Legislative
on Central Laws- How to foreclose
Department
and how to resolve.
Need for creating office of 1990
M/o Labour
Ombudsman and for evolving
legislative administrative measures
inter-alia to relieve hardships
caused by inordinate delays in
settling Provident Fund claims of
beneficiaries.
Legislative Protection for Slum and 1990
M/o
Urban
Pavement Dwellers.
Development
Urgent need to amend Order XXI, 1991
Legislative
Rule 92(2), Code of Civil Procedure
Department
to remove an anomaly which
nullifies the benevolent intention of
the legislature and occasions
injustice to judgement-debtors
sought to be benefited.
Need to amend Order V, Rule 19A 1991
Legislative
of the Code of Civil Procedure,
Department
1908, relating to service of
summons by registered post with a
view to foreclose likely injustice.
Need for amending the law as 1991
M/o Home Affairs
regards power of courts to restore
7
27.03.1989
Pending
Not Accepted
*
Implemented
*
*
*
22.08.1989
Pending
18.09.1989
Pending
30.03.1990
Pending
14.01.1991
*
23.01.1991
Pending
26.08.1993
*
08.09.1993
*
27.08.1993
*
26.08.1993
*
27.08.1993
Pending
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
criminal revisional applications and
criminal cases dismissed for default
in appearance.
Concessional
treatment
for 1991
offenders who on their own
initiative choose to plead guilty
without any bargaining.
Legislative
safeguards
for 1991
protecting the small depositors from
exploitation.
M/o Home Affairs
M/o
Affairs
27.08.1993
Implemented
Corporate 27.08.1993
Implemented
Thirteenth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice K. N. Singh 1991-1994)
Conflicting
Judicial
decisions 1992
Legislative
pertaining to the Code of Civil
Department
Procedure, 1908.
Article 12 of the Constitution and 1992
Department
of
Public Sector Undertakings.
Public Enterprises
Sale of Women and Children: 1993
M/o Women &
Proposed Section 373-A, Indian
Child Development,
Penal Code.
M/o Home Affairs
The Specific Relief Act, 1963.
1993
Legislative
Department
Repeal of Certain pre-1947 Central 1993
Legislative
Acts.
Department
Removal of certain deficiencies in 1994
M/o Road Transport
the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act
& Highways
No. 59 of 1988).
Suggesting some Amendments to 1994
Legislative
the Code of Civil Procedure (Act
Department
No. V of 1908).
Admiralty Jurisdiction.
1994
M/o Shipping
Custodial Crimes.
1994
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Home Affairs
Inter-Country Adoption.
04.01.1994
Pending
16.08.1993
Implemented
09.12.1993
Pending
03.03.1994
*
03.05.1994
Pending
31.03.1995
Implemented
31.03.1995
Pending
28.08.1995
13.06.1995
(MHA)
12.06.1995
(LD)
M/o Women & 12.09.1995
Child Development,
Legislative Deptt.,
M/o External Affairs
1994
Fourteenth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice K. J. Reddy 1995-1997)
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1996
M/o Home Affairs
22.11.1996
1973 (Act No. 2 of 1974).
The
Narcotics
Drugs
and 1997
M/o
Finance 28.07.1997
Psychotropic
Substances
Act,
(Narcotics Control
1985(Act No. 61 of 1985).
Bureau)
The Indian Penal Code.
1997
M/o Home Affairs
19.06.1998
Fifteenth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy 1997-2000)
Section 52:Transfer of Property 1998
Legislative
16.12.1999
Act, 1882 and its Amendment.
Department
The Amendment of the Industries 1998
D/o Industrial Policy 16.09.1998
(Development and Regulation) Act,
& Promotion
1951
Repeal and Amendment of Laws: 1998
M/o
Corporate 25.11.1999
Part I
Affairs,
D/o
Economic Affairs,
D/o Revenue, D/o
Posts,
M/o
Information
&
Broadcasting, M/o
Commerce
Amendment to the All India 1998
D/o
Higher 06.12.1999
Council for Technical Education
Education
Act, 1987 (Act No. 52 of 1987)
Central Vigilance Commission and 1998
D/o Personnel & 19.08.1998
8
Pending
*
Pending
Implemented
Implemented
Pending
Pending
Pending
Pending
Not Accepted
*
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
Allied Bodies.
Review of functioning of Central
Administrative Tribunal, Customs,
Excise
and
Gold
(Control)
Appellate Tribunal and Income-Tax
Appellate Tribunal
The Code of Civil Procedure
(Amendment) Bill, 1997
The Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (Act
IV of 1869)
Free and Compulsory Education for
Children
Training
D/o Revenue, D/o 06.12.1999
Personnel
&
Training
1998
1998
1998
1998
The Corrupt Public Servants 1999
(forfeiture of property) Bill.
The Patents (Amendment) Bill, 1999
1998.
The Hire-Purchase Act, 1972
1999
Amendment of Army, Navy and Air
1999
Force Act.
Reform of the Electoral Laws
1999
171
The Biodiversity Bill, 2000
2000
172
Review of Rape Laws
2000
Prevention of Terrorism Bill, 2000
Property Rights of Women:
Proposed Reforms Under the Hindu
Law
2000
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
2000
Legislative
Department
Legislative
Department
M/o
Human
Resource
Development
D/o Personnel &
Training
M/o Defence
06.12.1999
Implemented
06.12.1999
Implemented
06.12.1999
Implemented
01.11.1999
Pending
06.12.1999
Implemented
Legislative
Department
M/o Commerce &
Industry
Legislative
Department
M/o Environment &
Forests
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Home Affairs
M/o Home Affairs
Legislative
Department
06.12.1999
*
06.12.1999
Implemented
06.12.1999
Not Accepted
25.01.2000
Implemented
07.04.2000
Pending
25.04.2000
19.05.2000
Implemented
*
Sixteenth Law Commission
(Chairman Mr. Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy 2000-2001)
(Chairman Mr. Justice M. Jagannadha Rao 2002-2003)
The Foreigners (Amendment) Bill,
M/o Home Affairs
26.09.2000
2000
2000
The Arbitration and conciliation
Legislative
20.09.2001
2001
(Amendment) Bill, 2002
Department
Law Relating to Arrest
2001
M/o Home Affairs
19.02.2002
Legislative
13.02.2002
Department,
M/o
Recommendations for amending
Corporate Affairs,
various enactments, both civil and
2001
D/o Revenue, M/o
criminal
Home Affairs, M/o
Road Transport &
Highways
Public Interest Disclosure and
2001
D/o Personnel & 20.02.2002
Protection of Informers
Training
Article 20 (3) of the Constitution of
M/o Home Affairs
14.05.2002
2002
India and Right to Silence
Amendment to Section 106 of the
Legislative
14.05.2002
2002
Transfer of Property Act, 1882
Department
Amendment of Section 6 of the
D/o Land Resource
14.05.2002
2002
Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
A Continuum on the General
Legislative
18.11.2002
Clauses Act, 1897 with special
Department
reference to the admissibility and 2002
codification of external aids to
interpretation of statutes.
Legal Education & Professional
D/o
Higher 14.01.2004
Training
and
Proposals
for
Education
amendments to the Advocates Act, 2002
1961 and the University Grants
Commission Act, 1956.
Review of the Indian Evidence Act,
Legislative
27.03.2003
2003
1872.
Department
9
Pending
Implemented
Pending
Implemented
Pending
Pending
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Pending
Pending
Pending
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
SEVENTEENTH LAW COMMISSION
(Chairman Mr. Justice M. Jagannadha Rao 2003-2006)
Proposal to Constitute Environment 2003
M/o Environment & 21.10.2002
Courts
Forest
Mode of Execution of Death 2003
M/o Home Affairs
15.11.2003
Sentence and Incidental Matters
The Proposals for Constitution of
2003
D/o Justice
14.01.2004
Hi-Tech Fast - Track Commercial
Divisions in High Courts.
Revision of Court Fees Structure
2004
D/o Justice
08.04.2004
The Revision of the Insurance Act, 2004
D/o
Economic 03.06.2004
1938 and the Insurance Regulatory
Affairs
and Development Authority Act,
1999
Regulation of Funds collected for 2004
D/o
Economic 30.12.2004
Calamity Relief.
Affairs
Prevention of vexatious Litigation.
2005
Legislative
04.07.2005
Department,
M/o (LD, MHA)
Home Affairs
Transnational Litigation, Conflict of 2005
Legislative
17.06.2005
Laws, Law of Limitation.
Department
Verification of Stamp Duties and 2005
Legislative
17.06.2005
Registration of Arbitral Awards.
Department
The Judges (Inquiry) Bill, 2005
2006
D/o Justice
08.02.2006
Medical Treatment to Terminally Ill 2006
M/o
Health
& 26.05.2006
Patients (Protection of Patients and
Family Welfare
Medical Practitioners)
Public Prosecutor’s Appointments.
2006
M/o Home Affairs
22.08.2006
Witness Identity Protection and 2006
M/o Home Affairs
07.09.2006
Witness Protection Programmes
Unfair
(Procedural
and 2006
Legislative
07.09.2006
Substancive) Terms in Contracts
Department
Trial by Media: Free Speech Vs. 2006
D/o Justice
08.09.2006
Fair
Trial
Under
Criminal
Procedure (Amendments to the
Contempt of Court Act, 1971)
Medical Treatment after Accidents 2006
M/o Health and 08.09.2006
and During Emergency Medical
Family Welfare
Condition and Women in Labour
EIGHTEENTH LAW COMMISSION
(Chairman Dr. Justice AR. Lakshmanan 2007-2009)
Proposal to Amend Section 304-B
M/o Home Affairs
19.10.2007
2007
of the Indian Penal Code
Section 438 of the Code of Criminal
M/o Home Affairs
09.01.2008
Procedure, 1973 as Amended by the
Code of Criminal Procedure 2007
(Amendment)
Act, 2005
(Anticipatory Bail)
Proposal to Amend the Hindu
Legislative
01.03.2008
Succession Act, 1956 as amended 2008
Department
by Act 39 of 2005.
Legislative
01.03.2008
Proposal to Amend the Prohibition
Department,
M/o
of Child Marriage Act, 2006 and 2008
Women & Child
other allied Laws.
Development
Proposal for enactment of new
M/o Home Affairs
26.06.2008
Coroners Act applicable to the 2008
whole of India
Proposal to amend Section 15 of the
Legislative
26.06.2008
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 in case
Department
a female dies intestate leaving 2008
herself acquired property with no
heirs.
Proposal for amendment of
Legislative
18.08.2008
Explanation to Section 6 of the
Department
2008
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 to
include oral partition and family
10
Implemented
Pending
Pending
Implemented
Implemented
Pending
Pending
Pending
Pending
Implemented
Not Accepted
Pending
Pending
Pending
Partly
Not
Accepted
Partly
Implemented
Implemented
Implemented
Pending
Pending
Pending
Pending
Pending
Pending
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
arrangement in the definition of
"partition"
Proposal for omission of Section
213 from the Indian Succession
Act, 1925
Humanization
and
Decriminalization of Attempt to
Suicide.
Laws on Registration of Marriage
and Divorce –A Proposal for
Consolidation and Reform.
Laws of Civil Marriages in India –
A Proposal to Resolve Certain
Conflicts
Fast Track Magisterial Courts for
Dishonoured Cheque Cases
Proposal for reconsideration of
Judges cases I, II and III - SP
GUPTA Vs. UOI
L . Chandra Kumar be revisited by
Larger bench of Supreme Court of
India
Non-Feasibility of Introduction of
Hindi as Compulsory Language in
the Supreme Court of India
Irretrievable
Breakdown
of
Marriage - Another Ground for
Divorce.
Legislative
Department
18.08.2008
Pending
M/o Home Affairs
05.11.2008
Pending
Legislative
Department
14.11.2008
Pending
2008
Legislative
Department
14.11.2008
Pending
2008
M/o Finance, D/o 14.12.2008
Justice
D/o Justice
04.12.2008
Pending
D/o Personnel
Training
& 02.02.2009
Not Accepted
D/o Justice
02.02.2009
Implemented
Legislative
Department
08.04.2009
Pending
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2009
218
Need to accede to the Hague
Convention on the Civil Aspects of
2009
International
Child Abduction
(1980).
219
Need for Family Law Legislations
2009
for Non-resident Indians.
220
Need to fix Maximum Chargeable
Court-fees in Subordinate Civil 2009
Courts.
221
Need for Speedy Justice – Some
2009
Suggestions.
Pending
29.05.2009
Pending
19.05.2009
Implemented
03.07.2009
Pending
Ministry of Labour
08.07.2009
Not Accepted
25.08.2009
Implemented
2009
Legislative
Department,
Home Affairs
2009
Legislative
25.08.2009
Pending
223
Need for Ameliorating the lot of the
Have-nots - Supreme Court’s 2009
Judgments.
225
226
227
12.08.2009(M Pending
HA)
22.01.2010(
WCD)
08.04.2009(L
D)
M/o Overseas Indian 08.04.2009(L Implemented
Affairs, Legislative D)
Department
31.07.2009(O
IA)
D/o Justice
06.04.2009
Implemented
29.05.2009
Need
for
Justice–dispensation
2009
through ADR etc.
224
M/o Home Affairs,
M/o Women &
Child Development,
Legislative
Department
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Home Affairs
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Labour, D/o Legal
Affairs, Bar Council
of India
Legislative
Department,
M/o
Labour, M/o Home
Affairs
Legislative
Department
222
Amendment of Section 2 of the
Divorce Act 1869 Enabling Nondomiciled Estranged Christian
Wives to seek Divorce.
Amendment of Sections 7, 7A, and
7B of Industrial Disputes Act 1947
Making Advocates Eligible to man
Labour Courts and Industrial
Tribunals.
2009
The Inclusion of Acid Attacks as
Specific Offences in the Indian
Penal Code and a Law for
Compensation for Victims of
Crime.
Preventing Bigamy via Conversion
Implemented
2008
2009
2009
11
M/o
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
to Islam - A Proposal for giving
Statutory Effect to Supreme Court
Rulings
Need For Legislation to Regulate
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Clinics as Well as Rights and
Obligations of Parties to a
Surrogacy
Need for division of the Supreme
Court into a Constitution Bench at
Delhi and Cassation Benches in
four regions at Delhi, Chennai/
Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai
Reforms in the Judiciary – Some
suggestions
Amendments in Indian Stamp Act
1899 And Court-Fees Act 1870
Permitting Different Modes of
Payment
Retirement Age of Chairpersons
and Members of Tribunals – Need
for Uniformity
Amendment of Code of Criminal
Procedure Enabling Restoration of
Complaints
Department,
Home Affairs
2009
M/o
Legislative
25.08.2009
Department,
M/o
Health and Family
Welfare
Pending
D/o Justice
25.08.2009
Not Accepted
D/o Justice, Bar 25.08.2009
Council of India
D/o Justice, D/o 25.08.2009
Revenue
Implemented
D/o Legal Affairs
26.10.2009
Pending
M/o Home Affairs
24.09.2009
Pending
M/o Home Affairs, 24.09.2009
M/o Road Transport
and Highways
Pending
2009
2009
2009
Implemented
2009
2009
Legal Reforms to Combat Road
2009
Accidents
NINETEENTH LAW COMMISSION
(Chairman Justice P.V. Reddi 2010-2012)
Conversion/re-conversion
to
Legislative
2010
another religion- mode of proof.
Department
Court-fees in Supreme Court vis-àD/o Justice
2010
vis Corporate Litigation
Compounding of (IPC) Offences
2011
M/o Home Affairs
Amendment of Section 89 of the
Legislative
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and 2011
Department
Allied Provisions
Expeditious Investigation and Trial
Report submitted to
of
Criminal
Cases
Against
the Supreme Court
Influential Public Personalities
of India. No action
Submitted to the Supreme Court of 2012
is to be taken by the
India in WP (C) No.341/2004,
Government.
Virender Kumar Ohri Vs. Union of
India & Others
Legislative
Costs in Civil Litigation
2012
Department, all the
High Courts
M/o Health and
Passive Euthanasia – A relook
2012
Family Welfare
Prevention of Interference with the
Legislative
Freedom of Matrimonial Alliances
Department,
M/o
(in the name of Honour and 2012
Home Affairs
Tradition) : A suggested Legal
Framework
Section 498A of IPC
2012
M/o Home Affairs
TWENTIETH LAW COMMISSION
(Chairman Justice Shri A. P. Shah 2012-2015)
Electoral Disqualifications
2014
Legislative Department
Arrears and Backlog : Creating
Department of Justice
2014
Additional Judicial (wo)manpower
Amendment to the Arbitration and
D/o Legal Affairs (Admn.
2014
Conciliation Act, 1996
III)
Sections 41 to 48 of the Indian
Legislative Department
Succession Act, 1925 – Proposed 2014
Reforms
“Obsolete
Laws:
Warranting 2014
Legislative Department
12
31.01.2011
Pending
02.02.2011
Implemented
24.01.2012
24.01.2012
Pending
Pending
--
--
18.06.2012
Pending
25.09.2012
Pending
25.09.2012
(MHA)
04.01.2013
(LD)
Pending
25.09.2012
Pending
05.03.2014
08.07.2014
Pending
Pending
12.08.2014
Pending
17.09.2014
Pending
17.09.2014
Pending
249
250
251
252
253
254
immediate Repeal” – An Interim
Report
“Obsolete
Laws:
Warranting
immediate Repeal” – Second
Interim Report
“Obsolete
Laws:
Warranting
immediate Repeal” – Third Interim
Report
“Obsolete
Laws:
Warranting
immediate Repeal” – Fourth Interim
Report
Right of the Hindu Wife to
Maintenance:
A relook at Section 18 of the Hindu
Adoptions and
Maintenance Act, 1956
“Commercial
Division
and
Commercial Appellate Division of
High Courts and Commercial
Courts Bill, 2015”
“The Prevention of Corruption
(Amendment) Bill, 2013”
2015
2015
256
260
261
262
Legislative Department
13.11.2014
Pending
Legislative Department
19.11.2014
Pending
Legislative Department
15.01.2015
Pending
Admn.III(LA)
D/o Legal Affairs
09.02.2015
Pending
DOPT
25.02.2015
Pending
Legislative Department, 18.03.2015
M/o Corporate Affairs,
D/o Revenue
H&FW,
M/o
Road 15.04.2015
Transport and Highways,
Legislative Department,
Department of Justice
Legislative Department
02.06.2015
Pending
D/o Revenue
D/o
Personnel
Training
17.09.2015
Pending
Legislative Department, 18.09.2015
Department of School
Education and Literacy,
M/o Women and Child
Development, M/o Labour
and Employment
D/o Economic Affairs
14.09.2015
Pending
M/o Environment Forests 17.09.2015
and Climate Change
M/o Home Affairs
17.09.2015
Pending
2015
Eliminating Discrimination Against
2015
Persons Affected by Leprosy
259
Pending
2014
Electoral Reforms
258
20.10.2014
2014
255
257
Legislative Department
2014
2015
Reforms in Guardianship and
2015
Custody Laws in India
Prevention of Bribery of Foreign
Public Officials and Officials of
2015
Public International organization –
A Study and Proposed Amendments
Early Childhood Development and
2015
Legal Entitlements
Analysis of the 2015 Draft Model
2015
Indian Bilateral Investment Treaty
Need to Regulate Pet Shops and
2015
Dog and Aquarium Fish Breeding
The Death Penalty
2015
Pending
Pending
and
Pending
Pending
* Information is not readily available, efforts are being made to collect the information and the data will
be updated once information is obtained.
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