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Law
About
- Administration of the Law Department, Administration of Advocate General's Office, Administration of Kerala Official Language (Legislative) Commission, Administration of Kerala State Human Rights Commission, Administration of Personal Laws, Administration of IPR and allied matters, Administration of Court Fees and Suit Valuation Act, Administration of Kerala Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, Administration of Kerala Advocates' Clerks Welfare Fund Act, Administration of Kerala Legal Benefit Fund.
- Legislative Drafting and Unification of Laws.
- Legal Advice to other Departments in the Secretariat
- Publication of State and Central Legislation.
- Conveyancing
- Appointment of Notaries and Government Law Officers.
- Translation of Legislation.
- To tender legal advice to Government.
- To examine legislative proposals and to do legislative drafting and to assist the legislature till enactment.
- To carry out legal scrutiny of subordinate legislations.
- To carry out legal scrutiny of instruments such as deeds, agreements to be executed for and on behalf of Government.
- To carry out legal scrutiny of pleadings in government cases.
- To monitor the conduct of government cases.
- To translate the State Acts, Ordinances and Bills to English or Malayalam and also to Tamil and Kannada and scrutiny of translated versions of subordinate legislations.
- To translate and publish authoritative texts of Constitution of India and Central Acts in Malayalam through the Official Language (Legislative) Commission.
- To implement State Litigation Policy.
- To implement Intellectual Property Rights Policy.
- To publish annual volumes of the Acts and the Ordinances.
- To prepare and publish Annual List of Enactments applicable in Kerala.
- To maintain and update folders of Central and State Enactments.
- To prepare Kerala Code of State enactments and the periodical revision thereof.
- To maintain consolidated volume of Statutory Rules and Orders.
- To publish Malayalam journal containing the translation of judgments.
- To maintain and update the website and enable an e-governance platform for the activities of the Department.
- To develop and maintain a highly motivated, dynamic, professionally excellent, well-trained and committed workforce.
- to appoint and administer Notaries so as to facilitate notarisation in the State.
- to appoint and administer Government Law Officers for the effective conduct of government cases .
- To effectively administer the Acts/Rules under the purview of this Department, viz., the Notaries Act, 1952, the Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 1980, the Advocate Clerks' Welfare Fund Act, 2003, the Kerala Court Fees and Suit Valuation Act,1960, the Kerala Stamp Act,1959,the Administrators General Act,1963,the Official Trustees Act,1913 ,the Kerala Government Law Officers' Rules,1978, and the Personal Laws.
- To effectively administer statutory bodies such as Kerala State Human Rights Commission, Kerala State Legal Services Authority, and Official Language (Legislative) Commission as well as the Department itself.
- To undertake law reforms.
Organization Structure
Shri. A. K. Balan Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes, Law, Culture and Parliamentary Affairs | (Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes,Law, Culture and Parliamentary Affairs) Room No: 118 1st Floor North Block Secretariat Thiruvananthapuram Mob: 9447962200 Tel: 0471-2333772/ 2333849 Fax: Tel: 0471-2332239 |
Department | Near Dharbar Hall Secretariat Thiruvananthapuram |
Secretary | Room No. 375 1st Floor Main Block, Secretariat Tel: 0471-2332955, 2518383 |
Advocate General Office | Ernakulam EPABX: 0484- 2395052, 2395078, 2393844 FAX: 0484- 2394674 E-mail: ago-ekm2006@rediffmail.com advocategeneralkerala@gmail.com |
Advocate General | Sri. C. P. Sudhakara Prasad New High Court Complex Tel: 0484- 2564300, 2394505 Fax: 0484- 2396399 |
WEBSITE |
Department Sections
1. All matters relating to Gazetted Officers of and above the rank of Under Secretary and DPC (Higher).
2. GPF, GIS, SLI, FBS, Group Personal Accident Insurance Scheme etc. of all Officers and Maintenance of necessary Registers, T.A. Bills of Non Gazetted Officers and Nomination of Officers to various Boards, Funds, Committees etc.
3. Pay Bills, Preparation of Income Tax Statements and TDS of N.G.Os, Issuing L.P.C and Salary Certificate.
4. Preparation of Budget and Reconciliation Works, Meeting of Chief Secretary with Secretaries, Staff Meeting in the Law Department and Administration of Official Language (Legislative) Commission.
5. All matters relating to the Section Officers, Office Superintendents, Personal Assistants & Confidential Assistants, D.P.C (Lower), Appointment of Reporters in the ILR (Kerala Series) and Administration of ILR.
1. Estt. Matters of Duffedars, Clerical Assistants, Attenders and Office Attendants and Holiday Duty postings.
2. Estt. Matters of Legal Assistants Grade II, Tamil & Kannada Translators.
3. Cash, Contingencies, Payment of Telephone Bills and Fuel, Repair and Maintenance of Office Vehicles
4. Estt. Matters of Typists, Binders, Roneo Operators, Drivers & Issue of NLC and Miscellaneous matters of Law (Administration) Department, Sanctioning of Medical Reimbursement claims and Journey sanction, Matters relating to the representation of SC/ST and OBC in the Law Department
5. Estt. Matters of Legal Assistants Grade – I, Assistant Legal Officers, Preparation of Seniority Lists, Loan and Advances.
2. Payment of fee to Advocate General, Additional Advocates General, Director General of Prosecution, Special Government Pleaders, Public Prosecutors, Government Pleaders, Standing Counsel and Panel Counsel.
3. Miscellaneous works relating to the office of Government Law Officers, Reciprocal arrangement for the conduct of cases with other States, opinion regarding appointment of Special Public Prosecutor, Printing and Supply of Registers, docket sheets etc. to Law Officers, supply of Law Journals to Law Officers and Implementation of State Litigation Policy.
4. Actions against Government Law Officers, Administration of the Kerala Government Law Officers (Appointment and Conditions of Service) and Conduct of Cases Rules, Complaints, Disciplinary Action etc. against Government Law Officers, Inspection of Offices and Registers of Government Law Officers and Follow up action.
1. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from General Administration, Law, Home and Power Departments
2. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from Revenue, Information Technology, Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Personnel & Administrative Reforms (Official Language) and Finance Departments.
3. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from Industries & Commerce, Higher Education, Social Justice, Vigilance, Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Developments, Backward Classes Development, Cultural Affairs and Housing Departments.
1. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from Co-operation, Transport and Local Self Government Departments.
2. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from Taxes, Forest & Wild life, Science & Technology, Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation and Election Departments.
3. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from Public Works, Water Resources, Planning & Economic Affairs, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Environment and Agriculture Departments.
1. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from General Education, Store Purchase, NORKA, and Information & Public Relation Departments.
2. Advice on pending litigation matters and on scope for appeal, revision etc on files from Health & Family Welfare, Labour & Rehabilitation, Fisheries, Sports & Youth Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Departments and those not specifically allotted to any other seat.
2. Monitoring of Government cases in the Heads of Departments and other Miscellaneous Works.
2. Website Management of Law Department, Training and preparation of course syllabus and matters incidental thereto, Content updating in respect of Law Department in the Kerala State Web Portal, Liaison with Legal Assistants engaged in CCMS Projects and matters connected with Online filing of Property Returns.
2. Re-publication of the Acts of Central Government, Offering State views on Law Commission Reports, Bills of Central Government and other legislative matters to the Central Government on files received from the Government of India or any Other Central Entity, Obtaining Acts and Ordinances from other States on reciprocal basis, Handling of Government of India Gazette, Update of Folders of Central Enactments alphabetically L to S
3. Preparation of State Codes and the periodical revision thereof, Reprinting of State Enactments, Update of Folders of Central Enactments alphabetically T to Z and Offering views on Law Commission Reports, Bills of Central Government and other legislative matters to the Central Government on files received from the Departments in the Kerala Government Secretariat.
4. Maintenance and Distribution of folder volumes of Central Acts and State Acts, Update of Folders of all State Enactments, Handling of State Gazette and Preparation and Publication of Index of the Statutory Rules and Notifications.
2. Administration of Advocates' Welfare Fund and Advocate Clerks' Welfare Fund, Meetings and allied matters, Annual Administration Reports of Welfare Funds.
2. Scrutiny of deeds, Conveyancing, opinion matters relating to stamp duty and registration of conveyancing documents from General Education, Industries & Commerce, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Consumer Affairs, Co-operation, Information Technology, Cultural Affairs, Election, Health & Family Welfare, Power, Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Housing, Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, P&ARD (Official Languages), Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes Development, Backward Classes, Information & Public Relations, Planning & Economic Affairs, Social Justice, Tourism and Science & Technology Departments.
2. Translation of judgment, Collection of the details of Acts already translated and all other Miscellaneous Works
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Finance, Election , Tourism and Taxes (G) Departments.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Taxes(except Taxes( G) Dept.) and Store Purchase Departments.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of General Administration, Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Official Language), Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Development, Backward Classes Development and Revenue (Devaswom) Departments.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Revenue(except Devaswom ) Departments.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Local Self Government Department (except those relating to Panchayat Raj Act)
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Labour & Rehabilitation Department.
3. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Local Self Government relating to Panchayat Raj Act and Industries and Commerce Departments.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Housing and Cultural Affairs Departments, Unification of Laws, Repeal and Savings of Enactments and Miscellaneous.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Transport, General Education and Sports & Youth Affairs Departments.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Home and Information & Public Relation Departments.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Vigilance Departments.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Law, Public Works and Power Departments.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Water Resources, Science & Technology and Environment Departments.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Forest &Wild Life and Planning & Economic Affairs Departments.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Higher Education Department.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including Translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Health & Family Welfare, Social Justice and Non Resident Keralites Affairs Departments.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Co-operation Department.
1. Main and Subordinate Legislation including translation from Malayalam to English and vice versa of Fisheries & Ports and Coastal Shipping & Inland Navigation Departments and Department not Specifically Allotted to any Section.
2. Main and Subordinate Legislation including translation from Malayalam to English vice versa of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Parliamentary Affairs and Information Technology Departments.
1. Offering Legal Advice on files from Public Works, Housing, Fisheries & Ports, Coastal Shipping & Inland Navigation and Taxes Departments.
2. Offering Legal Advice on files from Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Forest & Wild life, Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, Social Justice and Co-operation Departments.
3. Offering Legal Advice on files from Planning and Economic Affairs, Science & Technology and Local Self Government Departments.
1. Offering Legal Advice on files from Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Personnel & Administrative Reforms (Official Language), Law, Home and Vigilance Departments and Scrutiny of Prosecution Sanction.
2. Offering Legal Advice on files from Cultural Affairs, Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Development, Backward Classes Development, Non-Resident Keralites Affairs Departments and Administration and Opinion of Personal Laws.
3. Offering Legal Advice on files from General Administration and files relating to Withdrawal of Prosecution.
1. Offering Legal Advice on files from General Education, Higher Education, Labour & Rehabilitation, Sports & Youth Affairs Departments and works relating to the Sports Appellate Authority.
2. Offering Legal Advice on files from Health & Family Welfare, Power, Environment, Election, Information & Public Relations, Stores Purchase and Parliamentary Affairs.
3. Offering Legal Advice on files from Tourism, Transport, Information Technology, Water Resources, and Finance Departments.
1. Offering Legal Advice on files from Revenue (Spl.Cell), (Revenue-N) and Industries & Commerce Departments and Department not Specifically allotted to any Section.
2. Offering Legal Advice on files from Revenue Department (except Revenue N & Special Cell) and on matters coming under the Companies Act, Administration of Kerala Court Fees and Suit Valuation Act.
1. Administration of Kerala State Legal Services Authority
2. Appointment, Disciplinary action and Extension of Area of Practice of Notaries, Verification of Annual Returns of Notaries and Publication of List of Notaries.
3. Inspection of office and Registers of Notaries, Renewal and Re-appointment of Notaries.(link) Administration of Kerala State Human Rights Commission, Action Taken Reports on the Recommendations of State Human Rights Commission.
Services & Activities
Details of services available in Law Department under various
Statutes/Rules/Manuals/Executive orders
Central Acts/ Executive Orders | Administered/ Dealt with | Services available | Procedure/contact person for procuring services |
1. The Notaries Act, 1952 | Law (H) Dept | Appointment of Notaries and matters connected therewith. | Filing of application in the prescribed format before the competent Authority. |
2.The Personal Laws | Law (E) Dept | Appointment of Marriage Registrars under the Cochin Christian Civil Marriage Act, 1095. Secretariat Departments can obtain legal opinion on personal laws as inter-departmental references. | The Sub Registrars who are Christians are appointed as Marriage Registrar for Thrissur District, Palakkad District (expect the estwhile Malabar area) Ernakulam District (except the erstwhile Travancore area and Malabar area.) |
3. The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 | Law (H) Dept | Administration of Kerala State Legal Services Authority | The needy poor can approach KELSA for free legal aid visit: www.kelsa.nic.in |
4. The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. | Law(H) Dept | Administration of Kerla State Human Rights Commission | Human Rights violation are taken up before KSHRC. |
5. The Administrators General Act, 1963 | Law (Inspection)Dept | Administration of Estates | Sri. A.V .James, |
6.The Official Trustees Act, 1913 | Law (Inspection) Dept | Administration of Trusts. | Sri. A.V .James, |
7. Authoritative Texts (Central Laws) Act, 1973 and G.O.(Ms) No.42/68/Law,dated 14-06- 1968 | Law (Admn) Dept | Translating central Acts into Malayalam | Copies of authoritative Malayalam translation of Central Acts available for sale. |
Sl. No. | STATE ACTS | Administered/ | Services Available | Procedure/ contact person for procuring services |
1. | The Kerala Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1960 | Law (KLBF) Dept | Under Section 76 of the Act, Kerala Legal Benefit Fund established. | The Secretary/Convenor of the Kerala Legal Benefit Fund Trustee Committee is the Law Secretary to Government of Kerala. 70% of the Fund constituted under the Act shall be transferred to Kerala Advocates Welfare Fund and 30% of the Fund to the Kerala Advocate Clerks Welfare Fund after retaining an amount equal to 10% each from the amount so set apart to the Funds stated above in the Kerala Legal Benefit Fund for providing infrastructure to litigants. |
2. | The Kerala Advocates' Welfare Fund Act,1980 | Law (KLBF) Department | Kerala Advocates' Welfare Fund Constituted | Welfare to the Advocates in our state. |
3. | The Kerala Advocates Clerks Welfare Fund Act,2003. | Law (KLBF) Department | Kerala Advocates' Clerks'Welfare Fund Constituted. | Welfare of the Advocates' Clerks in our State. |
Sl. No. | STATE RULES | Administered/ Dealt with | Service Available | Procedure/contact person for procuring service |
1. | The Kerala Secretariat Law Department Library General Rules | Law (Library) Dept | Reference of latest and rare law books/ periodicals to the Officers of Law Department. | Law Library is attached to Law Dept. |
2. | Kerala Government Law Officers Rules, 1978 | Law (Inspection) Dept | Appointment of Govt. Law Officers in the State | Names and address of all Govt. Law officers available in the website www.keralalawsect.org |
3. | Law Department Manual | Law (Publication) Department | Yearly Publication of Acts & Ordinances | Copies are available in the Law (Publication) Department for reference. |
4. | Law Department Manual | Law (Legislation) Department | Translation of State Acts into Malayalam | Law Legislation A to I Sections |
5. | Law Department Manual | Law (Tamil Translation) Department | Translation of State Acts, Ordinances, Legislative Assembly Interpellations and other Miscellaneous Government work into Tamil. | The Tamil Translation needs of other Departments of Secretariat are also undertaken
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6. | Law Department Manual | Law (Kannada Translation) Department | Translation of State Acts into Kannada | The Kannada Translation needs of the Secretariat Departments are also undertaken. |
The Work distribution of Law Department
The Officers of Law Department
RTI- The State Public Information Officers of Law Department & Appellate Authority
For more details visit:-www.keralalawsect.org
Contact Us
The Law Secretary, Law Department | Government Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram Phone.No:0471-2518383,0471-2518390, Fax: 0471-2332955, 2333497 Email : secy.law@kerala.gov.in Website: http://www.keralalawsect.org |
Sl No. | Department Sections. | Phone No. |
1. | Administration-I | 0471-2517015,2518043 |
2. | Administration-II | 0471-2518864 |
3. | Inspection | 0471-2518863 |
4. | Suit -I | 0471-2518027 |
5. | Suit –II | 0471-2518246 |
6. | Suit –III | 0471-2518246 |
7. | Library | 0471-2518392 |
8. | Monitoring Cell | 0471-2518858 |
9. | Nodal | 0471-2517299 |
10. | Publication | 0471-2518410 |
11. | Parliamentary | 0471-2517185 |
12. | Unified Special Cell | 0471-2518353 |
13. | KLBF | 0471-2518048 |
14. | Conveyancing Cell | 0471-2518498 |
15. | Official Language (Publication) Cell | 0471-2517066 |
16. | Legislation - A | 0471-2518044 |
17. | Legislation - B | 0471-2518738 |
18. | Legislation - C | 0471-2518085 |
19. | Legislation -D | 0471-2518738 |
20. | Legislation - E | 0471-2518738 |
21. | Legislation-F | 0471-2517204 |
22. | Legislation - G | 0471-2518821 |
23. | Legislation - H | 0471-2518084 |
24. | Legislation - I | 0471-2518084 |
25. | Tamil Translation | 0471-2518793 |
26. | Kannada Translation | 0471-2518793 |
27. | Opinion - D | 0471-2518990 |
28. | Opinion - E | 0471-2518619 |
29. | Opinion - F | 0471-2518417 |
30. | Opinion - G | 0471-2518417 |
31. | Opinion -H | 0471-2518380 |
32. | Records | 0471-2518881 |
33. | Office Tappal | 0471-2518390 |
34. | Office (Translation) | 0471-2517158 |
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