Section 32 Qualifications for appointment of Chairperson and Members of Appellate Tribunal - The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2016

What is the Qualifications for appointment of Chairperson and Members of Appellate Tribunal? Section 32 of The BTP (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2016

 

Section 32 : Qualifications for appointment of Chairperson and Members of Appellate Tribunal

(1) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal unless he is a sitting or retired Judge of a High Court, who has completed not less than five years' of service.

(2) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as a Member unless he -

(a) in the case of a Judicial Member, has been a Member of the Indian Legal Service and has held the post of Additional Secretary or equivalent post in that Service;

(b) in the case of an Administrative Member, has been a Member of the Indian Revenue Service and has held the post of Chief Commissioner of Incometax or equivalent post in that Service
 

(3) No sitting Judge of a High Court shall be appointed under this section except after consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court.

(4) The Chairperson or a Member holding a post as such in any other Tribunal, established under any law for the time being in force, in addition to his being the Chairperson or a Member of that Tribunal, may be appointed as the Chairperson or a Member, as the case may be, of the Appellate Tribunal under this Act.