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| + | metatag-description=(RTI Act 2019 Amendment — Commissioner terms - verified citizen guide on RTI Wiki, India' | ||
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| + | ====== RTI Act 2019 Amendment — Commissioner terms ====== | ||
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| + | **Supreme Court of India** · 2019-08-01 · Act 24 of 2019 · **★ Landmark** | ||
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| + | //2019 Amendment: Commissioner tenure (previously 5 years) now determined by Central Rules; critics argue it reduces independence.// | ||
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| + | ===== Case details ===== | ||
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| + | ^ Court | Supreme Court of India | | ||
| + | ^ Decided | 2019-08-01 | | ||
| + | ^ Citation | Act 24 of 2019 | | ||
| + | ^ Petitioner | Union of India | | ||
| + | ^ Respondent | various | | ||
| + | ^ RTI Act sections | §13, §14, §16, §27 | | ||
| + | ^ Outcome | Guidance / other | | ||
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| + | ===== Outcome ===== | ||
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| + | Parliament amended §13, §14, §16, §27 — Commissioner tenure and salary now determined by Central Government rules. | ||
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| + | ===== Ratio decidendi ===== | ||
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| + | The RTI (Amendment) Act, 2019 changed the fixed 5-year tenure of Information Commissioners to whatever the Central Government prescribes by rules. Salary and service conditions similarly shifted to executive rules. This was passed over concerns about Commissioner independence. | ||
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| + | ===== Keywords ===== | ||
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| + | 2019 Amendment, Commissioner tenure, §13, §14, independence | ||
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| + | ===== Similar cases in the corpus ===== | ||
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| + | //These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.// | ||
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| + | //Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.// | ||
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