Supreme Court strikes down amended Finance Act rules for tribunals

Validity of Act as Money Bill referred to a larger Bench

The Supreme Court passed an interim order on Wednesday that said appointments to tribunals would be on the basis of existing laws governing the relevant sectors, and not on the basis of rules framed under the Finance Act of 2017.

The five-judge Constitution Bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices N V Ramana, D Y Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta, and Sanjiv Khanna, also ordered that the validity of the passage of the Finance Act 2017 as Money Bill should be decided by a larger Bench.

Money Bills contain provisions for imposing taxes and appropriating sums out of the Consolidated Fund of India,