Nepal Law Commissionनेपाल कानून आयोग

What does it do?

• “To prepare the draft of the necessary code for the codification of the law and submit it to the Government of Nepal,” lawcommission.gov.np Functions and Duties (English interface), restating Act s.10
• “To study the currently unused, conflicting, unequal, discriminatory, against human rights and unenforceable laws and submit suggestions to the Government of Nepal regarding the repeal, amendment or review of such laws,” lawcommission.gov.np Functions and Duties
• “To study whether the law is in accordance with the principle propounded by the Supreme Court and if it is not found to be in accordance with it, to submit a draft to the Government of Nepal regarding the formulation, repeal and revision of the law,” lawcommission.gov.np Functions and Duties

Which law set it up?

What the law says is summarised with section numbers, not quoted, because text copied from the official PDFs is not reliable.

Law

Nepal Law Commission Act, 2063 (2007)नेपाल कानून आयोग ऐन, २०६३

Section

Section 3(1) (नेपाल कानून आयोगको स्थापना)

Official text

lawcommission.gov.np

History

“The Nepal Law Commission Act, 2063 was certified in 2063.9.30 and according to that law, the Nepal Law Commission has been established as a statutory body established by law.” lawcommission.gov.np Introduction / Background (English interface), item 8

Who leads it and who oversees it?

Head

Not named on its official website

Falls under

No official source found stating that it is under a ministry. The Act says: The Commission must keep contact with the Government of Nepal through the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (Nepal Law Commission Act 2063, s.26). The ministry's Secretary is an ex officio member of the Commission (s.4(1)(घ)).

Website

lawcommission.gov.np

What could we not establish?

• Head not recorded. The home page officials block shows the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson slots with placeholder dashes and no names. The only named senior official is 'Indira Dahal (Bhattarai), Secretary'.प्रमुखको नाम अभिलेख गरिएको छैन। गृहपृष्ठको पदाधिकारी खण्डमा अध्यक्ष र उपाध्यक्षका स्थानमा नामको सट्टा धर्का छन्। नाम उल्लेख भएका वरिष्ठ पदाधिकारी ‘इन्दिरा दाहाल (भट्टराई), सचिव’ मात्र हुनुहुन्छ।