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Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division

division · partial (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
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Role
Secretary
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
2009
Legal basis
Rules of Business 1996 (Schedule I); Constitution of Bangladesh Article 93 (ordinances to be laid before parliament); created December 2009 when the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs was bifurcated into the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division and the Law and Justice Division

Division completed its largest single legislative workload since establishment -- vetting and processing 133 interim-government ordinances through the 13th parliament's first session, resulting in 91 laws enacted and 7 lapsed. Now drafting 16 new bills for reintroduction covering ACC reform and other lapsed reform ordinances. Constitutional Reform Council secretariat role is on hold pending resolution of the political-constitutional dispute over whether elected MPs can simultaneously sit on an extra-constitutional reform body.

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Provenance & notes

LPAD was created December 2009 when the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs was divided into two operative divisions: LPAD (legislativediv.gov.bd) for legislative drafting and parliamentary liaison, and the Law and Justice Division (lawjusticediv.gov.bd) for courts, judges, and legal services. The official website is legislativediv.gov.bd (not lpad.gov.bd; that domain routes to a Teletalk recruitment portal). Former secretary Naren Das died of COVID-19 on 21 July 2020; Md. Moinul Kabir was appointed acting secretary on 3 August 2020 and confirmed as secretary on 15 June 2021. No verified news of a replacement for Moinul Kabir was found in primary sources for 2024-2026; current_head is set to null pending direct confirmation from the division's officer list page (legislativediv.gov.bd/pages/officers/ -- page timed out during verification). The 91-bill ordinance conversion batch in April 2026 was LPAD's most intensive legislative processing exercise since the division was established. The Constitutional Reform Council secretariat role: LPAD's parent ministry and the division were expected to provide drafting/secretarial support, but the council is legally contested (BNP refuses the second council oath) and no operative secretariat function has been confirmed. The crc.legislativediv.gov.bd subdomain was used for the 2024-2025 Constitutional Reform Commission, which was a different body; the 2026 council is a parliamentary-level mechanism, not a commission. Verification status is 'partial' because current_head and FY2025-26 budget figures could not be confirmed from accessible primary sources.

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