Section 2. Definitions

2. Definitions .—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Chairperson" includes Chairperson, Chairman, President and Presiding Officer of a Tribunal; (b) "Member" includes Vice-Chairman, Vice-Chairperson, Vice-President, Account Member, Administrative Member, Judicial Member, Expert Member, Law Member, Revenue Member and Technical Member of a Tribunal; (c) "notified date" means the 4th April, 2021; (d) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to this Act; (e) "Tribunal" means a Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal or Authority as specified in column (2) of the First Schedule. 2. In the second phase, analysis of data of the last three years has shown that tribunals in several sectors have not necessarily led to faster justice delivery and they are also at a considerable expense to the exchequer. The Hon'ble Supreme Court has deprecated the practice of tribunalisation of justice and filing of appeals directly from tribunals to the Supreme Court in many of its judgements, including S.P Sampath Kumar versus Union of India (1987) 1 SCC 124, L. Chandra Kumar versus Union of India (1997) 3 SCC 261, Roger Mathew versus South Indian Bank Limited (2020) 6 SCC 1 and Madras Bar Association versus Union of India and another (2020) SCC Online SC 962. Therefore, further streamlining of tribunals was considered necessary as it would save considerable expense to the exchequer and at the same time, lead to speedy delivery of justice.