Six Bills, including Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2023, listed in RS today; two for introduction, 4 for consideration and passage

Six Bills were included in the Rajya Sabha’s legislative business on Tuesday. Four of them will be moved by ministers for consideration and passage, and two will be introduced.

The Bills listed for introduction are the Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2023; and the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023. The Bills listed for their consideration and passage are the Mediation Bill, 2021; the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2023; the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 A few of these six Bills are repeated in the revised list of Legislative Business on Tuesday as they could not be moved to the Upper House due to a ruckus created by the Opposition MPs seeking detailed discussion under Rule 267 over ethnic violence in Manipur as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement over the matter.

Arjun Ram Meghwal, the Union Minister of Law and Justice, will present the Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha today in order to modify the Advocates Act, 1961.
Anurag Singh Thakur, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, will present the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha today to provide provisions for press and periodicals registration.

Meghwal is also likely to move the Mediation Bill, 2021 in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday for its consideration and passage to promote and facilitate mediation, especially institutional mediation, for the resolution of disputes, commercial or otherwise, enforce mediated settlement agreements, provide for a body for the registration of mediators, to encourage community mediation and to make online mediation as an acceptable and cost-effective process.