India, Nov. 11 -- The Supreme Court on Monday told the Centre that any reforms for effective functioning of tribunals cannot ignore past court orders as it questioned the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021 to be a "legislative overreach" for reintroducing provisions on tenure and eligibility of members and chairpersons that were struck down earlier by the court.

Hearing petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the 2021 Act for introducing a four-year tenure, a minimum eligibility age of 50 years among other measures, the court sought the rationale behind introducing these provisions when the tribunals have been performing efficiently over the past decades with no instance of deviation.

"You can do everything except what has been set...