- Type
- Act
- Year
- २०१७ BS
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड २: अदालत तथा न्याय प्रशासन · Volume 2: Courts and Administration of Justice
- Official text
- Official page Official text (PDF)
- English translation
- Official English translation archived copy: the original page is no longer online
Includes amendments up to: 2066 BS. Translations may not include later amendments. The Nepali text is the authoritative law.
Analysis drawn from official reports, court rulings and published research, each cited. Figures are being double-checked against the source documents; corrections are welcome.
What does it do?
- The Act abolished all State Courts (राज्य अदालत) — the courts run in the semi-autonomous principalities (rajya) — from its commencement in 2017 BS, to reform the administration of justice.न्याय प्रशासनमा सुधार ल्याउन यस ऐनले २०१७ सालमा प्रारम्भ भएदेखि नेपालभित्रका राज्य (रजौटा) क्षेत्रमा चलेका सबै राज्य अदालत खारेज गरेको हो। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text Preamble; Section 2(1), p. 1
- Pending cases, case files, and records of unpaid fines and imprisonment from the abolished courts were transferred to the district court designated by the government, which was to decide them and collect the dues as if they were its own cases. From then on all cases in the former state areas were to be heard by district courts.खारेज भएका अदालतमा बाँकी मुद्दा, मिसिल र असुल गर्न बाँकी दण्ड जरिवाना र कैदको लगत सरकारले तोकेको जिल्ला अदालतमा सर्ने र त्यस अदालतले आफ्नै मुद्दासरह किनारा गर्ने व्यवस्था छ। त्यसपछि राज्य इलाकाभित्रका सबै मुद्दा जिल्ला अदालतले हेर्छन्। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text Section 2(2), p. 2; Section 4, p. 2
- Former rulers (raja rajauta) and state-court staff had to hand over the records within the time set by the government; if a ruler failed to do so, the government could freeze the revenue of that state until the records were handed over. The Act is historical in nature: it has no ongoing regulator, and references to the King were removed by the 2066 amendment.राजा रजौटा र राज्य अदालतका कर्मचारीले तोकिएको अवधिभित्र कागजपत्र जिल्ला अदालतमा बुझाउनुपर्थ्यो; नबुझाए सरकारले त्यस राज्यको आम्दानी रोक्का गर्न सक्थ्यो। यो ऐन ऐतिहासिक प्रकृतिको हो — यसको नियमित कार्यान्वयन गर्ने छुट्टै निकाय छैन, र २०६६ को संशोधनले राजासम्बन्धी शब्द हटाएको छ। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text Sections 5–6, p. 2; title page and footnotes, pp. 1–3
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
None documented in the official reports we have reviewed so far.
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.