INTERNSHIP REPORT

Under The Guidance – VEENA MAM ( JS )

SHRI ATUL KUMAR SIR , ALC (officer-in-group)
SHRI PRASHANT SIR , ALC (Officer in group)

Submitted To:-

Ministry of Law and Justice

Legislative Department (ILDR Section)

Duration of Internship
July 3nd, 2023 to July 31th 2023

Submitted By:-
Name- HARSH KUMAR
Programme- 5th year B.COM LLB
College- TEERTHANKAR MAHAVEER UNIVERSITY
Mobile No. - 9917306546

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the individuals and organizations who have
contributed to the successful completion of my internship and the preparation of this report.

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to [Name of

Supervisor/Manager], my internship supervisor, for their guidance, support, and mentorship
throughout the entire duration of my internship. Their expertise, patience, and willingness to
share their knowledge have been invaluable in shaping my professional growth and enhancing
my understanding of the industry.

Furthermore, I am indebted to the staff members and department heads who graciously shared
their insights and expertise with me. Their willingness to answer my questions, provide
feedback, and offer constructive criticism has been instrumental in enhancing the quality of
my work and broadening my perspectives.

I am also thankful to my professors and mentors at Symbiosis law School for their continuous
support and guidance. Their theoretical knowledge and practical insights have laid a strong
foundation for me to excel in my internship and produce this report.

Additionally, I would like to acknowledge the support of my family and friends, whose
unwavering encouragement, understanding, and belief in my abilities have been a constant
source of motivation throughout this internship journey. Lastly, I would like to express my
gratitude to all those individuals who have contributed directly or indirectly but whose names
may not be mentioned here. Your support, advice, and inspiration have played a significant
role in shaping my internship experience.

In conclusion, I am deeply thankful to everyone who has been a part of my internship journey
and has contributed to the successful completion of this report. Your assistance and support
have been invaluable, and I am truly grateful for the opportunities and knowledge I have
gained through this internship.

Thank you all once again.

HARSH KUMAR

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 DECLARATION

I HARSH KUMAR 5th year B.COM LLB, hereby declare that this internship report is my
original work and has not been submitted elsewhere for academic credit or any other purpose.
Unless otherwise stated, I am the sole author of this report.

During the course of my internship at Ministry of Law Justice (Legislative Department), I

have conducted myself with integrity and adhered to all ethical guidelines and policies of the
organization. I have not engaged in any form of plagiarism, cheating, or unethical behavior.
Furthermore, I have maintained confidentiality and will not disclose any proprietary or
confidential information obtained during my internship. This report by me will be weekly
based in which I mentioned my work experience during entire duration of my Internship.

HARSH KUMAR

Mobile No. – 9917306546

E mail - [email protected]

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 ABOUT

Ministry of Law and Justice

Ministry of Law and Justice is the oldest limb of the Government of India dating back to
1833 when the Charter Act 1833 enacted by the British Parliament. The said Act vested for
the first time legislative power in a single authority, namely the Governor General in Council.
By virtue of this authority and the authority vested under him under section 22 of the Indian
Councils Act 1861 the Governor General in Council enacted laws for the country from 1834
to 1920. After the commencement of the Government of India Act 1919 the legislative power
was exercised by the Indian Legislature constituted thereunder.

The Government of India Act 1919 was followed by the Government of India Act 1935. With
the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947 India became a Dominion and the
Dominion Legislature made laws from 1947 to 1949 under the provisions of section 100 of
the Government of India Act 1935 as adapted by the India (Provisional Constitution) Order
1947. Under the Constitution of India which came into force on the 26th January 1950 the
legislative power is vested in Parliament.

Composition-

The Ministry of Law and Justice consists of three Departments, namely,

 Legislative Department,
 Department of Legal Affairs
 Department of Justice.

Function of Legislative Department-

The Legislative Department is mainly concerned with drafting of principal legislation for the
Central Government, its publication and scrutiny and vetting of subordinate legislations made
under Central Acts by various Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. It is also
concerned with administration of Election Law and Electoral Reforms besides dealing with
legislation in respect of certain concurrent field legislation such as civil procedure, personal
law, etc. India Code, which consists of unrepealed Central Acts of all-India legislation
enacted from the previous century and which is in force in the territory of India is available
on the website of the Legislative Department.

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 Vision Mission & Objectives

VISION

To achieve excellence in legislative matters for accomplishing the objectives set out in the
Constitution of India and to transform the Legislative Department into the model drafting
office of the Union.

MISSION

 Ensuring consistency and uniformity in drafting with brevity, clarity and precision,
Government Bills, Ordinances and Subordinate Legislation sponsored by various
Central Ministries and Departments.
 Capacity building for efficient and timely drafting, scrutiny and vetting of Principal
and Subordinate Legislation.
 Restructuring the Institute of Legislative Drafting and Research to impart training in
legislative drafting in English and Hindi by making it an institution of national
importance.
 Real time dissemination of information of Principal Legislation for the benefit of the
common man.

OBJECTIVES

 Disposing of legislative proposals in time

 Implementation of the Law Commission Reports relating to Legislative Department
 Improving the legislative drafting skills of the officers of the Union and the States
 Disseminating information relating to Principal Legislation
 Enhancing the use of information technology in the functioning of the Department
 Facilitating timely conduct of free and fair elections to Parliament and to State
Legislatures.

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 FUNCTIONS OF THE SECTIONS IN THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

Administration I Section
All Establishment matters in respect of staff and officers of the Legislative Department and
Official Languages Wing. Establishment matter in respect of Group ‘A’ Officers in the
Election Commission. Establishment matters in respect of officers and members of the staff of
the Election Departments of the Administration of Union Territories.

Administration II Section
Establishment matters of Group ‘D’ staff CGHS and Medical Attendance Rules
Reimbursement of medical expenses. Allotment of office and residential accommodation.
Security arrangements and identity cards.

Budget & Accounts and Integrated Finance Section

Budget Estimates, Revised Estimates and Final Estimates of expenditures Demands for Grant,
Annual Reports Co-ordination in respect of Appropriation Accounts for grants Statutory audit
and Internal audit and inspection of accounts. Scrutiny all proposals for Creation of new posts
and continuance of existing posts. Delegation of powers

Cash Section
Payment of salary and Grant of advance, etc.

Correction Section
Up-to-date Codes and Supplements containing Acts, Ordinances and Regulations of all the
States and Union Territories. Marking and scrutiny of all the Gazette rules, orders and
notifications.

GSRO Section
Compilation of General Statutory Rules and Orders made under Acts in the India Code.

Legislative I Section
Examination of Legislative proposals for drafting – Bill, Ordinances, etc. Examination of
proposals for legislation with regard to the requirement of recommendations of the President
under articles 110, 117(1), 117(3), etc. Constitution Amendment Bill

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Leg. II & Parliament Section
Elections to Parliament – General Elections, Bye Elections, Lok Sabha/ Rajya Sabha,
Presidential / Vice – Presidential Elections. Election Law and Rules Private Member’s Bills
Examination of references from President Sect. relating to disqualification of MPs and MLAs
and putting up draft orders for consideration of the President.

Legislative III Section

Matters relating to entries 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 28 in the concurrent list of the
Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India including personal laws. Office of Profit.

Printing Section
Editing of manuscripts of Central Bills

Publication Section
Publications – revised edition to India Code; Constitution of India, Manual of Election Law,
etc.

FUNCTIONS OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGES WING

Official Languages Wing of the Legislative Department is responsible for preparing and
publishing standard legal terminology and also for translating into Hindi, all the Bills to be
introduced in Parliament, all Central Acts, Ordinances, Subordinate legislations, etc., as
required under the Official Languages Act, 1963.
The Official Languages Wing also releases grants-in-aid to various registered voluntary
organisations engaged in promotion and propagation of Hindi and other regional languages
and those organisations, which are directly engaged in the publication of legal literature and
propagation of Hindi and other Languages in the field of law.

FUNCTIONS OF VIDHI SAHITYA PRAKASHAN

Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan is mainly concerned with bringing out authoritative Hindi versions of
reportable judgements of the Supreme Court and the High Courts with the objective of
promoting the progressive use of Hindi in the legal field. Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan brings out
various publications of legal literature in Hindi. It also holds exhibitions in various States for
giving wide publicity to legal literatures available in Hindi and to promote their sales.

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First Week –

The First week of my Internship at Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice
started with the introduction of the Department i.e. the basic functioning of the department
which includes working of the different organs of the department for their respective work.
Along with this basic introduction I also performed some basic administrative facilities like
application of Gate Pass, Undertaking by me to the department, formation of file for allotment
of mentors under whom guidance this entire period of internship has been done.

The mentor allotted to me is Shri PRASHANT Sir, met with respected sir and we had a
formal introduction session apart from this sir asked me some questions regarding
jurisprudence and some insights to it, and also asked about the subjects I studied till now
during the course of my UG programme After this Sir gave me the Annual Report 2022-2023
of Ministry of Law and Justice asked me to go through the functioning of the all the Three
departments under the umbrella of Ministry of Law and Justice.

After reading of the report I came to know that Legislative Department processed all the
legislative proposals received from various administrative Ministries and Departments in the
Year 2022. 84 Legislative proposals from the Ministries/Department have been examined,
wherein 28 legislative have been forwarded to the parliament. In the Year 2022, 23 Acts have
been enacted by the parliament. Some of the Acts are as following:-

 The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment), Act 2022

 The National Anti-Doping Act,2022
 The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act,2022

While going through the report I also find that Legislative Department also functions in
Election to Parliament, the legislatures of States and Union territories and offices of the
president and the Vice President, appointment of the expenditure on elections.

After final reading of the annual report by Ministry of Law and Justice, I read a file sent by
Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (Department of Sports), for vetting of Amendment to the
Clause 17(2) of the statutes of National Sports University Act, 2018.

I briefed the particular matter of the file to Mr. A.K Dwivedi Sir, that what the Ministry of
Youth affairs & sports wants to do and vetted the particular matter with a bare reading of the
National Sports University Act, 2018 from Bare Act, as per the order of A.K Diwedi Sir I

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also drafted a rough reply note for the matter on behalf of the Legislative department i.e. why
this particular amendment cannot be done, as it is against the wordings of the section 25 of
the National Sports University Act, 2018 as the proposed notification by the respective
ministry after vetting is found to be not complying with the wordings of the section 24(4), as
bare reading of this section does not allow changes after 3 + 1 year from the enactment of the
act.

I also went to the Printing Section of the legislative department as per my mentor asked me to
do so, to see how the printing section of the legislative department work and what are the
basic functions that are performed by the printing section. After spending ample amount of
time I came to know the work flow;

Legislative Department  Leg-I Section  Printing Section

Printing section basically edit the bill and sent it to MR Press for obtaining proof and after
receiving it the process of proof reading starts in printing section. After the process of
approval a signed SOR received by the printing section and they prepare 6 copies of that
SOR for different organs.

To sum up my understanding in printing section the process of proof reading was done at
every stage, and after last stage of proofreading if any error found, Corrigenda prepared to
rectify non-substantial errors.

I also read a file of The energy conservation (Amendment) Bill 2022 in which there was
some changes in section 2 of the Act, I also came to know about the statement of object and
Reason regarding the need of the suggested change in the bill. Some of the changes are-

 Clause 13 of the Bill  insert a new section 27(A)

 Clause 17 of the Bill  amend sub-section (2) of section 57
 Clause 18 of the Bill  sub-section (2) of section 58

After going through this file I very well understand the functioning of the Printing section of
the Legislative department. During my visit in the printing section also read a book named
collection of the acts passed by the governor general of India in Council in the year 1876.

I also helped my respected mentor in proof reading of the Poisons Act, 1919 which was a
new bill with the Legislative department for vetting which is regarding certain changes in the
Poisons Act before independence.

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Second Week-

The second week of my internship started in the Leg-1 section of the legislative department,
SHRI ATUL SIR, the respected officer of the section after a formal introduction session
with me and acknowledged the basic working of the Leg-1 section and also provided me the
annual report of the Ministry of Law and Justice to read thoroughly about the functioning of
the Leg- III section of the legislative department. Some of the functions concerned with this
section are as following:-
 Government of India (Allocation of Business) rules,1961
 Amendment of insurance Act
 List III- Concurrent list (7th schedule of constitution) which includes :- marriage and
divorce, infants and minor adoption etc, Transfer of Property act(other than
agriculture), Contracts(not including those relating to agricultural land), evidence and
oaths, trust and trustees, Civil procedure including limitation and arbitration.
 Reports of Law commission of India on personal laws and on certain subjects
mentioned in List-III concurrent list.

The Leg-1 section being in charge of personal laws handled various petitions and other court
cases in the Supreme Court and various High Courts. In order to handle petitions work like
parawise comments, counter affidavits and appropriate instructions, as the case may be, have
been prepared and conveyed to the Government counsel has been performed by the section.

Leg-1 section also has handled Joint parliament questions; both starred and unstarred this
includes examining the references for the secretariat at JCOP as to whether certain offices
come within the premises of “Office of Profit”.

I also read the 28th report on Joint committee on offices of profit 16 th Lok Sabha, A
comprehensive review of the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959 chaired
by Shri Kalraj Mishra. During the course of Leg 1 section I also read report of the joint
committee under chairmanship of Pandit Thakurdas Bahrgava to study various matters
connected with disqualification of member under Article 102(1)(a) of the constitution.

Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act 1959 was enacted by parliament to declare

that certain offices of profit under the government shall not disqualify the holders thereof for
being chosen as, or being Member of Parliament. I came to know that Parliament (Prevention
of Disqualification) Act was amended in year- 1993, 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2013.

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In this week itself I also visited the Leg-II section of the Legislative department and came to
know that they basically deal with the matters related to Election Commission of India. In
this section on first day I assigned with some research work by officer in charge of this
section regarding Delimitation commission, so basically Delimitation literally means the act
or process of fixing limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country or a
province having a legislative body. The job of delimitation is assigned to a high power body.
Such a body is known as Delimitation Commission or a Boundary Commission. In India,
such Delimitation Commissions have been constituted 4 times – in 1952 under the
Delimitation Commission Act, 1952, in 1963 under Delimitation Commission Act, 1962, in
1973 under Delimitation Act, 1972 and in 2002 under Delimitation Act, 2002.

I along with my assigned mentor done proofreading and some correction in the Agricultural
Produce (Grading, Marking, Standardization and Certification) Bill 2023 of the Agricultural
Produce (Grading, Marking) Act, 1937.

In this week itself I read about the guidelines for formulating subordinate legislation by the
Governments/Ministries, I also read about the HENRY VIII Clause which is basically for
removal of difficulties when the legislative passes an Act, it cannot foresee all the difficulties
which may arise in implementing it. The executive is therefore empowered to make necessary
changes to remove such difficulties.

I also came to know about the contents of Gazette of India and some of the contents are as
following:-

 Part II Section 1- Acts, Ordinance and Regulations

 Part II Section 2- Bill and reports of the select committee of Lok Sabha
 Part II Section 4- Statutory Rules & orders by ministry of defense.

My mentor Respected has provided me a document to read and the key findings of that
document are as following:-

 Came to know about the difference between private and public bill.
 Read about the Joint session of both houses and the act till now which are passed by
joint session like; Dowry Prohibition Act (1961), Banking Service Commission
Report Bill (1978), Prevention of Terrorist activities act (2002).
 Also came to know about the Absolute veto and Pocket Veto.

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Third Week-

After completing the two wonderful weeks in the legislative department and what are the
matters dealt by this section.

This section not only performs functions as servicing department for drafting legislation
initiated by the administrative Ministries and Departments but also initiates legislative
proposals in respect of the matters with which it is administratively concerned. Legislative
department drafts the finance bill to give effect to the financial proposals of the central
government every year. For the purpose of convenience, the various subjects on which the
Bills are drafted in Legislative Department at the behest of administrative
Ministries/Department can broadly categorized as under:-

 Constitutional amendments
 Economic and corporate law
 Civil Procedure and other social welfare legislation
 Repeal of obsolete laws
 Miscellaneous laws

After the brief introduction to the Leg-I section I got a file named Promulgation of the
Lakshadweep Building development Board (Repeal) regulation, 2022 in the Union Territory
of the Lakshadweep, under article 240 of the constitution, it is basically a Regulation No. 3 of
2022 and it is for the purpose of winding up the operation of the LBDB, after reading the file
a came to know that the reason behind repeal of this board is that Administration has been
incurring substantial financial burden as this Board is funded totally by the Grant-in-aid.

I got a second file named Act No. 19 of 2021 which is related to The National Institute of
food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill 2017 in this file I came to know
about De-novo category and section 3 of UGA, 1956.

After reading these two files I came to know that what is very important part in any file is its
NOTE FOR THE CABINET which tells everything about questions like what, why, when,
how etc. The contains of any Note for the Cabinet is as following-

 Introduction, Background, Proposal

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  Justification
 Inter-ministerial consultation
 Financial Implications, Approval of cabinet sought
 Employment Generation, Statement of Implementation Schedule
 SO equity, Innovation and Public Accountability
 Statement of Major Milestones
 Approval of Minister-in-charge

I find Leg-I section as a very good source of Knowledge especially when its comes to
Constitution of India as I came to know many useful points related to the same which I am
not aware about.

I asked for a file which is related to Constitutional Order, so my basic understanding about
Constitutional order is that Constitutional means relating to the constitution of a particular
country or organization. I went through a file named Re-defining criteria for declaration of
Scheduled Areas under Fifth Schedule of the constitution – so Article 244 talks about the
Schedule Areas as Article 244 of the Indian Constitution deals with the administration of
scheduled areas and tribal areas. It contained two provisions as follows:

 The provisions of the Fifth Schedule shall apply to the administration and control of
the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State other than the States of
Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.
 The provisions of the Sixth Schedule shall apply to the administration of the tribal
areas in the States of Assam Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

Fifth Schedule- The Fifth Schedule of the Constitution deals with the administration and
control of Scheduled Areas as well as of Scheduled Tribes residing in any State other than the
States of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

During this course only I also went through the file named Proposal to the amendment to the
Constitution ( Application to Jammu and Kashmir ) 1954, this particular file is basically
acknowledged me about:-

Article 368- specified power of parliament to amend the constitution and procedure therefore.

Clause 4 of the Article 16 – 4(A) which is inserted by 77 th amendment Act of 1995 and the
validity of which was held in the case Nagaraja v/s Union of India.

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Fourth Week

I read a file the subject of which is Proposal for issuance of new Constitution (Application to
Jammu Kashmir) Order 2019 under article 370(1), issuance of a Declaration under article
370(3); the Jammu and Kashmir State Reorganization Bill.

Learning’s from the file is as following-

 Article- 35A - Article 35A was an article under the Constitution of India that
empowered the State Legislature of Jammu and Kashmir to define “permanent
residents” of the state along with granting them special privileges. The article was
revoked on August 5, 2019, through a Presidential order along with Article 370.
 On 5 August 2019, the Union Government revocated the special status granted to
Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 through a Presidential Order and made the
entire Constitution of India applicable to the state.
 This implied that the Article 35A stood abolished. Further, the Parliament of India
passed legislation reorganising the state into two union territories, one being Jammu
and Kashmir, the other Ladakh.

I also read about a Bill file named Introduction of a bill to amend the constitution of India
inter-alia to give effect to the recommendations of the Swaran Sing committee in the current
session of parliament. By reading this file I came to know about the report of Swaran Sing
committee which says Sardar Swaran Singh Committee was set up by Congress Party in 1976
to make recommendations about fundamental duties, the need and necessity of which was felt
during the operation of the internal emergency (1975–1977).

The committee recommended the inclusion of a chapter on fundamental duties in the

Constitution. It stressed that the citizens should become conscious that in addition to the
enjoyment of rights, they also have certain duties to perform as well. The Congress
Government at Centre accepted these recommendations and enacted the 42nd Constitutional
Amendment Act in 1976. This amendment added a new part, namely, Part IVA to the
Constitution. This new part consists of only one Article, that is, Article 51A which for the
first time specified a code of ten fundamental duties of the citizens.

Some of the recommendations given by the committee are as following-

 System of government- parliament system is best suited to our country.

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  The Preamble- The concept of secularism and socialism should be clearly spelt out in
constitution.
 Some incorporation of fundamental duties like; pay taxes according to law, to abjure
violence, to abjure communalism in any form.
 Two new directives should be included in article 39 i.e. Family Planning and Free
legal Aid.
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 Industrial Laws and labour disputes, Matters elated to Revenue, land reforms, Power
of Judicial Review etc.
 Delimitation of constituencies and modification in Article 170 of constitution.
 The Services- Article 311; according to recommendation service matters will be taken
outside the jurisdiction of courts and will be dealt by Administrative tribunals.

I along with my mentor Shri Atul kumar singh work on some proofreading of the bills from
the existing acts like Officials Secrets Acts, 19234 and also proofreading and some correction
of the Agricultural Produce (Grading Marking, Standardisation and Certification) Bill 2023
of which the existing Act is Agricultural Produce ( Grading and Marking) Act, 1937. We
vetted the drafted bill multiple times and also arranged the defininition section of the bill in
alphabetical order.

I read and vetted a file named Amendment of Recruitment Rules for the post of Assistant
Research officer in ore dressing in India Bureau of mines.

During this period I read a file named Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2021 i.e.
amendment to energy conservation act, 2001 so the idea behind this amendment bill is to
strengthen the regulatory and enforcement mechanism of the Act and to provide for more
financial as well as executive powers to the state government for implementing schemes and
programmes for energy conservation and energy efficiency, to strengthen the Bureau of
energy efficiency agency. Some of the proposals are as following:-

 Framework for carbon markets and carbon emission reduction

 Mandate use of Non-fossil energy sources including Green Hydrogen for energy and
feed stock.
 Bringing residential buildings within the fold of the energy conservation regime.
 Amendment in the penalty provision.

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 Experience during the Internship

During my internship at the Ministry of Law and Justice, Legislative Department, I had the
incredible opportunity to gain firsthand experience in the field of legislative affairs and
witness the inner workings of the legal system. It was an enriching and eye-opening
experience that allowed me to apply the knowledge I had acquired during my academic studies
in a real-world setting.

One of the highlights of my internship was the opportunity to work closely with the legislative
team. I was assigned with senior members of the department in conducting legal research,
analyzing proposed bills, and some proofreading’s. This hands-on experience provided me
with a comprehensive understanding of the legislative process from its early stages to the final
enactment of laws. I had the chance to delve into intricate legal concepts, explore case law,
and examine precedents, which significantly expanded my knowledge and analytical skills. It
was fascinating to observe the dynamic interactions among these professionals as they
deliberated on complex legal issues, weighing different perspectives and seeking optimal
solutions. These experiences broadened my horizons and gave me a deeper understanding of
the multifaceted nature of lawmaking.

Moreover, the supportive and knowledgeable team at the Ministry played a crucial role in
making my internship a rewarding experience. The professionals I worked with were not only
well-versed in their respective fields but also genuinely passionate about their work. They
were always willing to answer my questions, provide guidance, and engage in meaningful
discussions about legal matters.

Overall, my internship at the Ministry of Law and Justice, Legislative Department, was a
transformative experience. It not only deepened my understanding of legislative affairs but
also instilled in me a greater appreciation for the importance of law in society. I am immensely
grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the legislative process and work alongside
professionals who are dedicated to upholding justice and promoting the rule of law.

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