Salient points of the constitutional amendment bill

The following are the salient points of the constitutional amendment bill which will scrap the collegium system of judges’ appointments:

* Chief Justice of India to head six-member National Judicial Appointments Commission.

* Law minister, two senior Supreme Court judges and two eminent people to be the other members.

* Collegium comprising prime minister, Chief Justice of India, leader of the single largest party in the Lok Sabha to select the two eminent people.

* If two members of the commission do not agree on a candidate, he or she will not be appointed.

* One eminent person will be nominated from among people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, minorities or women.

* The term of the two eminent people will be for a period of three years with a provision that they cannot be renominated.

* The bill states that the commission will seek views of the governor and chief minister of the concerned state in writing before appointing or transferring a judge of that high court.