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Civil Bill
Civil Bill
August 11, 2017
Kathmandu: the parliament has passed the third Bill on Fine and Punishment: one of the five Civil Bills that are supposed to replace the Civil Act the first Rana Prime Minister Jung Bahadur had enacted in the mid 19th century; after Prithvi Narayan Shah scrapped all the civil codes the Malla kings had set up and strictly enforced in the mid 18th century, his descendents and he ran the administration without any civil law until Jung Bahadur formulated a civil code after visiting Britain and feeling the need for a civil law in writing otherwise the Shah-Rana rulers used to run the judiciary and administration with the word of mouth.
The Civil Bill on Fine and Punishment was supposed to pass on August 9, 2017 but the parliament had not the presence of lawmakers sufficient to make a quorum so the parliament could pass it only on August 10, 2017. Following the provisions made in the Bill, first, any bench of a law court has to prove the crime, and then another bench has to pass the punishment for the crime within 30 days with the full justification in writing; the main thing the bill has done is to remove the discretionary power of judges to set the punishment; it has removed the power of any court to suspend or reduce the punishment for the serious crimes such as corruption, human trafficking, rape, murder, arms and armaments, and kidnapping, the news in the “gorkhapatra” of today stated.
The Bill becomes Act after the president signed it off, and puts it into effect on August 17, 2017.
