Classification of Administrative Functions Tripartite functions of Administration

A municipal corporation does three very different things in one month. It frames a bye-law on hoardings. It refuses one shopkeeper a licence. It hears a complaint against an encroacher and orders the stall removed. The first looks like making a law, the second like running an office, the third like a court case. Does the law treat them the same? The answer decides whether you are entitled to a hearing, and for that reason classification is not just theory.

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Administrative bodies perform legislative, judicial, quasi-judicial and purely administrative functions; the labels matter because each attracts different procedural duties, although after A. K. Kraipak (1969) the right to a fair hearing no longer depends on the label alone.

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