Unit 6: Institutional Mechanism
6.1 National Information Commission
(The RTI’s oversight body — the LAW5605-U8.3’s companion depth.)
6.1.1 Composition of National Information Commission
The RTI Act 2064’s design: the Chief-Commissioner-and-Commissioners’ structure (the appointment (the government’s recommendation-committee face)); the qualification (the information-and-law experience (the chief’s seniority)); the tenure’s faces (the fixed term (the continuity’s design)); the office (the secretariat-and-the staff).
6.1.2 Major Powers, Functions and Duties of National Information Commission
- **The RTI’s implementation monitor (the public-bodies’ compliance (the information-officers’ appointment-checking (the proactive-disclosure’s audit))).
- **The complaint’s hearing (the refused-request’s remedy (the citizen’s complaint against the information-denial (the order-to-disclose (the Commission’s binding decision (the appeal’s route to the court))))).
- **The classification’s review (the secrets’ list (the exempted-catalogue’s scrutiny (the over-classification’s check (the public-interest-override’s application (the exemption’s harm vs the disclosure’s public-interest balance))))).
- The promotion-and-records (the RTI-education (the records-management’s modernisation duty (the protection-and-cataloguing of the records))).
6.1.3 Judicial Power and Functions
The Commission’s quasi-judicial character: the complaint’s adjudication (the hearing’s procedure (the parties’-and-the-document’s powers)); the order’s enforcement (the disclosure-compulsion (the fine’s faces (the non-compliance’s penalty (the Act’s sanction list))); the decision’s review (the court’s appeal (the Commission’s-not-a-court line (the administrative-adjudicator (the LAW5605-U5’s quasi-judicial analysis)))).
6.2 Press Council
The Council’s character (the Press Council Act 2048): the statutory-but-press-led body (the co-regulation’s flagship (the self-regulation’s institutionalisation (the world’s press-council model’s Nepal member))).
6.2.1 Composition of Press Council and Its Powers and Functions
The composition: the Chairman (the distinguished-journalist/justice-type tradition (the government’s appointment face (the autonomy’s perennial question))); the members (the editors’-publishers’-journalists’-and-the-institutions’ representatives (the working-journalists’ associations (the press’s internal voice)) + the government’s-and-the-academia’s faces). The powers-and-functions (the exam’s list):
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