law: The Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985
  4. Establishment of Administrative Tribunals.
  
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  (1) The Central Government shall by
  
  notification, establish an Administrative Tribunal to be known as the Central
  
  Administrative Tribunal, to exercise the jurisdiction powers and authority
  
  conferred on the Central Administrative Tribunal by or under this Act. 
  (2) The Central Government may, on receipt of
  
  a request in this behalf from any State Government, establish, by notification,
  
  an Administrative Tribunal for the state to be known as...... (name of the
  
  State) Administrative Tribunal to exercise the jurisdiction, power and
  
  authority conferred on the Administrative Tribunal for the State by or under
  
  this Act. 
  (3) Two or more states may notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (2) and notwithstanding that any or all of
  
  those States has or have Tribunals established under that sub-section, enter
  
  into an agreement that the same Administrative Tribunal shall be the
  
  Administrative Tribunal for each of the States participating in the agreement,
  
  and if the agreement is approved by the Central Government and published in the
  
  Gazette of India and the official Gazette of each of those States, the Central
  
  Government may, by notification, establish a Joint Administrative Tribunal to
  
  exercise the jurisdiction, power and authority conferred on the Administrative
  
  Tribunal for those States by or under this Act. 
  (4) An agreement under sub-section (3) shall
  
  contain provisions as to the name of the Joint Administrative Tribunal. The
  
  manner in which the participating States may be associated in the selection of
  
  the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Members of the Joint Administrative
  
  Tribunal, the places at which the Bench or Benches of the Tribunal shall sit,
  
  the apportionment among the participating States of the expenditure in
  
  connection with the Joint Administrative Tribunal and may also contain such
  
  other supplemental, incidental and consequential provisions not inconsistent
  
  with this Act as may be deemed necessary or expedient for giving effect to the
  
  agreement. 
  (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in the
  
  foregoing provisions of this section or sub-section (1) of section 5, the
  
  Central Government may - 
  (a) with the
  
  concurrence of any State Government, designate, by notification, all or any of
  
  the Members of the Bench or Benches of the State Administrative Tribunal
  
  established for the State under sub-section (2) as Members of the Bench or
  
  Benches of the Central Administrative Tribunal in respect of that State and the
  
  same shall exercise the jurisdiction, powers and authority conferred on the
  
  Central Administrative Tribunal by or under this Act; 
  (b) on receipt of a
  
  request in this behalf from any State Government, designate, by notification,
  
  all or any of the Members of the Bench or Benches of the Central Administrative
  
  Tribunal functioning in that State as the Members of the Bench or Benches of
  
  the State Administrative Tribunal for that State and the same shall exercise
  
  the jurisdiction, powers and authority conferred on the Administrative Tribunal
  
  for that State by or under this Act, and upon such designation, the Bench or
  
  Benches of the State Administrative Tribunal or, as the case may be, the Bench
  
  or Benches of the Central Administrative Tribunal shall be deemed, in all
  
  respects, to be the Central Administrative Tribunal, or the State
  
  Administrative Tribunal for that States established under the provisions of
  
  Art. 323-A of the Constitution and this Act. 
  (6) Every notification under sub-section (5)
  
  shall also provide for the apportionment between the State concerned and the
  
  Central Government of the expenditure in connection with the Members common to
  
  the Central Administrative Tribunal and the State Administrative Tribunal and
  
  such other incidental and consequential provisions not inconsistent with this Act
  
  as may be deemed necessary or expedient.