GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
LAW (ADMINISTRATION - I) DEPARTMENT

                        Office Order No. 80 /08/Law.  Dated,Thiruvananthapuram,   14 .08.2008

                  The following re-distribution of work among the sections of the Law Department is ordered with immediate effect.

SL.
NO

Section
With Tel.  No.

Seat No

Subjects dealt within the section

1.

Administration- I
7015

I (1)

All matters relating to Gazetted Officers of Law Department including OL (L) C, DPC (H) and DPC (L), appointment of reporters etc… in the ILR (Kerala Series) and Administration of ILR.

7015

I (2)

GPF, GIS, SLI, FBS of all Officers and maintenance of Registers for the same.
Nomination of officers to Various Boards, Funds, Committees, etc…

8043

I (3)

Pay Bills and T.A. Bills of N.G.Os, Preparation of Income Tax Statement and TDS of N.G.Os, issuing L.P.C and Salary Certificate.

8043

I (4)

Preparation of Budget and the Reconciliation Works, Meeting of Chief Secretary and Secretaries with heads of Department, Staff Meeting of Law Department and Administration of OL (L) C, Establishment Matters of Confidential Assistants.

2.

Administration-II
8864

II (1)

Estt. Matters of Duffedars, Clerical Assistants, Attenders and Peons- Loans and advances, holiday duty postings.

II (2)

Estt. Matters of Legal Assistants, Tamil & Kannada Translators.

II (3)

Cash -contingencies, Payment of Telephone bills and Fuel, Repair and Maintenance of Office vehicles

II (4)

Estt. Matters of Typists, Office Superintendents, Binders, Roneo Operators, Drivers & issue of NLC and Miscellaneous matters of Law (Administration) Department, Sanctioning of Medical Reimbursement claims and Journey sanction, Representation of SC/ST and OBC.

3.

Legislation (A)
8044

A (1)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from Revenue Department, Legislature SC/ST Development, GAD & P&ARD, Files relating to Court fees and Suit Valuation, Personal Laws, Summoning and Proroguing of KLA, Main Legislation with regard to Land Reforms, Files relating to Tribals.

A (2)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from Taxes, Finance, Store Purchase, Election, PRD and Insurance Departments.

4.

Legislation (B)
8738

B (1)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from LSG (Rural Development), Vigilance, Water resources, Forest and Wild life, Home Department and Research.

B (2)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from Food and Civil Supplies, Power, Co-operation, Planning and Economic Affairs, Law, Science Technology and Environment Departments.

5.

Legislation (C)
8085

C (1)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from LSGD and Social Welfare Department

C (2)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from Industries, Housing Department, Main Legislation files from Labour and I.T Departments

C (3)

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from Health Department, Subordinate Legislation files from Labour Department.

6.

Law   (Leg. Unification)
8738

Uni-1

All Legislation (Main and Subordinate) files from Agricultural Department and Unification of Laws and files from PWD

Uni-2

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from Transport department, Fisheries and Port Department.

Uni-3

Main and Subordinate Legislation files from General Education, Higher Education, and Cultural Affairs Department.

ROUTING OF FILES IN LEGISLATION SECTIONS: -

                1. Files relating to Subordinate Legislation shall be routed from the level of Section Officer to the Deputy Secretary through the Under                     Secretary and such files shall be disposed at the level of Deputy Secretary as far as possible.  But the Deputy Secretary thinks                      it necessary that certain files have to be disposed   of by the Superior Officers, He/She may submit those files to the higher officers.

                2. Files relating to Main Legislation in Leg A and Leg B Sections shall be routed from the Section Officer through Under Secretary and
                     Joint Secretary to Additional Law Secretary.

                3. Files relating to Main Legislation in Leg C and Leg (Unification) Sections shall be routed from the Section Officer through the Deputy                      Secretary and Joint Secretary to Additional Law Secretary.

7.

Law  (D)
8990

D (1)

Taxes, PWD, Fisheries and Ports.

D (2)

Agriculture, Forest and Wild life, Co-operation Department, Food and Civil Supplies Department

D (3)

LSGD, Science and Technology, Planning and Economic Affairs, Rural Development, Social Welfare and Housing, Science and Technology and L.S.G.D.

8.

Law (E)
8990

E (1)

Home and Vigilance Department, Scrutiny of prosecution sanction of vigilance case.

E (2)

P&ARD, GAD, Cultural Affairs, SC/ST and NORKA, Personal Laws (Administration and Opinion) 

E (3)

Higher Education (Opinion), Home Department

NOTE: - Files relating to withdrawal of prosecution shall be disposed of at the level of Deputy Secretary as far as possible. But  if the Deputy Secretary thinks it necessary that certain files have to be disposed of by the Superior Officers, he may submit those files to the higher officers.

9.

Law (F)
8417

F (1)

General Education and Labour

F (2)

Health and Family Welfare, Power, Election, Public Relations departments,
Legislature and Miscellaneous Opinion matters.

F (3)

Transport, Water resources, Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation.

10.

Law (G)
8417

G (1)

Revenue (Spl..Cell) Department, Store Purchase Department, and Conveyancing.

G (2)

Finance Department, Industries Department & files relating to Land reforms (Revenue-N)

G (3)

Revenue Department (except Revenue N & Special Cell), Companies Act, Administration of Kerala   Court Fees and Suit Valuation.

11.

Law (H)
8380

H (1)

Advocates Welfare fund matters, Administration of KELSA, Administration of Advocate Clerks Welfare Fund Committee.

H (2)

Appointment, Disciplinary action and extension of area of practice of Notaries, verification of Annual returns of Notaries and yearly publication of List of notaries.

H (4)

 Inspection of office/registers of Notaries, renewal & reappointment of Notaries, Administration of   KSHRC, ATR's on recommendations of KSHRC.

12.

Law
(Inspection B)
8863

B (1)

Administration of the Office of the Advocate General, Ernakulam, appointment of Government Law Officers in High Court, Standing Counsels and Panel Counsels in the Supreme Court, Law Officers in the District and Sub Court centres.

B (2)

Payment of fee to Advocate General, Additional Advocate General, Special Government Pleader, Public Prosecutor, Government Pleaders, Standing Counsels and Panel Counsels

B (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.

B (4)

Taking Disciplinary action against Government pleaders, Amendment to the Kerala Government Law Officers Rules etc, files relating to the complaint against Government Law Officers and follow up action, matters relating to the inspection of offices of Government Pleaders and follow up action, inspection of registers of Government Law Officers and follow up action.

13.

Law (Suit C1), (Annex)
8027

C-1

Files from GAD and Home Departments

C-2
&
C-7

Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies and P&ARD.

Files from Industries, Higher Education, Social Welfare, Cultural Affairs and Housing Departments.

14.

Law (Suit C-II)
8246

C-3

Files from Co-operation, SC/ST development Department, Transport and LSGD

C-4
&
C-8

 Files from Taxes, Forest and Wild life, Science and Technology, Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation
Files from Agriculture, PWD, Irrigation and Water resources, Planning and Economic Affairs and Law.

15.

Law (Suit C-III)
8246

C-5

Files from General Education, Store Purchase, Election, NORKA, Vigilance and I & PRD Departments.

C-6

Files from Health, Labour, Finance, Insurance, Power, Fisheries, Legislature and departments not specifically allotted to other seats.

16.

Law (Library)
8392

Purchase of Books and CD's, Subscription of Journals, Maintenance of Stock-Registers, Periodicals and Payment thereof. Arrangement and sending of journals to Government press for binding. General Administration of Library, Reference service to the Officers, providing copy of Judgments, Bills, Acts, Ordinance etc by using computer, updating of Law Telephone Directory, subjects relating to the implementation of the decision of Inter State Council 9th meeting.

17.

Law (Monitoring cell]
8858

MC-1

Monitoring of Government cases in the office of the District Collectors

MC-2

Monitoring of Government cases in the Heads of Department, Miscellaneous Works etc.

18.

Law (Nodal)
8410

Updating of Law Department Website, Administration of Intellectual Property Rights and related matters, project implementation, project of modernization of Law Department and Court Cases monitoring solution for Law Offices, Training and preparation of course syllabus, E- Governance initiatives in Law Department and convening of Monitoring Committee, Training Co-ordination Committee meeting, Opinion files from IT Department and IT related files from other departments including scrutiny of deeds relating to IT.  Content updating in respect of Law Department in the Kerala state web portal and convening the meeting of the editorial team, feed back (E- mail initiative) and matters relating to MGP. Administration of charitable and public trusts in Kerala.

19.

Law    (Leg- Publication)
8410

P-1

Publication of Annual Volumes of Acts and Ordinances, preparation and publication of annual list of enactments in force in the State corresponding with other states, reprinting of the Acts and keeping the registers containing the dates on which the Acts came into force.

P-2

Re-publication of the Acts of Central Government, conveying the views of State Government on Law Commission reports, Bills of Central Government and other legislative matters to the central Government and obtaining Acts and Ordinances from other States on reciprocal basis, handling of Government of India Gazette.

P-3

Preparation of State codes and the periodical revision thereof.

P-4

Keeping folder volumes of Central Acts and State Acts, Preparation and Publication of Index of the Statutory rules and Notification

20.

Law (Parliamentary)
7185

Papers connected with the Kerala Legislative Assembly, Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha, Consolidation of Questions and Supplying answers, Works relating to Right to Information Act 2005 and Internal Audit of Law Department.

21.

Law
(Unified Special Cell)
8353

Scrutiny and Translation of Rules relating to LSGD

22.

KLBF
& Law Reforms Commission
8048

I

Accounts- Keeping of Registers, Vouchers, Cheque Book, Preparation of Budget and Treasury dealings Inspection- Appellate Authority, Tribunals and follow up actions Establishment matters of Law Reforms Commission.

II

 Administration of the Fund, O.P. files, Convening of Trustee Committee, Meetings and allied matters, files on special projects, Annual Administration Report.

23

Translation
8702

M-1

Translation of Bills, Acts, Ordinances, Rules, Notifications, Legislative Assembly interpellations and other important miscellaneous works from other department of Secretariat from Malayalam to English and vice versa.

8702

M-II

-Do-

8821

M-III

-Do-

8084

M-IV

-Do-

8084

M-V

-Do-

24

Office Section
(Translation)

Consolidation and furnishing of Monthly Business Statement to P&ARD before 5th of every month, Supply of Stationeries and other articles.

25

.

Tamil Translation
8793

Translation from Malayalam/ English to Tamil and vice versa.

26

Kannada Translation
8793

Translation from Malayalam/ English to Kannada and vice versa.

27

Office Section
8390

Receiving and Distribution of Tap pal, Despatch, Distribution and Maintenance of furniture, Supply of Stationeries and other articles, Office accommodation and binding.

28

Records Section
8881

Receipt, Distribution and Keeping of disposals and records.

P.S.GOPINATHAN
                                                                                                             LAW SECRETARY

          To

          1.All Officers/ Sections of Law Department

          2.Stock File

          3.Office Copy

          4.General Administration (SS) Department.

          5.General Administration (Co-ordination) Department.