law: Commission of Enquiries Act, 1952
  3. Appointment of Commission - 
  (1) The appropriate Government may, if it is of opinion
  
  that it is necessary so to do, and shall, if resolution in this behalf is
  
  passed by ( [ Note : Subs. by Act 19 of 1990, sec 2, for certain words.] each
  
  House of Parliament or, as the case may be, the Legislature of the State, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a Commission of Inquiry for the
  
  purpose of making an inquiry into any definite matter of public importance and
  
  performing such functions and with such time as may be specified in the
  
  notification, and the Commission so appointed shall make the inquiry and
  
  perform the functions accordingly.
  Provided  that where any such Commission has been
  
  appointed to inquire into any matter-
  a . by the Central Government, no State
  
  Government shall, except with the approval of the Central Government, appoint
  
  another Commission to inquire into the same mater for so long as the Commission
  
  appointed by the Central Government is functioning.
  b . by a State Government, the Central
  
  Government shall not appoint another Commission to inquire into the same matter
  
  for so long as the Commission appointed by the State Government is functioning,
  
  unless the Central Government is of opinion that the scope of the inquiry
  
  should be extended to two or more States.
  2. The Commission may consist of one or more members
  
  appointed by the appropriate Government, and where the Commission consists of
  
  more than one members , one of them may be appointed as
  
  the Chairman thereof.
  3. [ Note : Ins by Act 79 of 1971,
  
  sec.5.] The appropriate Government may, at any stage of an inquiry by the
  
  Commission fill any vacancy which may have arisen in the office of a member of
  
  the Commission (whether consisting of one or more than one member).
  4. The appropriate Government shall cause to be laid
  
  before ( [ Note : Subs. by Act 19 of 1990, sec 2, for
  
  certain words.]each House of Parliament, or, as the case may be, the
  
  Legislature of the State), the report, if nay, of the Commission on the inquiry
  
  made by the Commission under sub section (1) together with a memorandum of the
  
  action taken thereon, within a period of six months of the submission of the
  
  report by the Commission to the appropriate Government.
  [ Note : Sub section (5) and
  
  (6) omitted by Act 19 of 1990, sec. 2, which were inserted by Act 36 of 1986,
  
  sec. 2 ( w.e.f .  14-5-1986 ).