The Commission shall perform the following functions, namely:-

(a) examine all the important State Laws in detail with a view to recommend as a result of such examination, lines on which the same should be simplified, consolidated, amended, revised or otherwise brought upto date, keeping in view the changed socio economic conditions of the society and the directive principles of the Constitution of India and to identify laws which are no longer needed or relevant and can be immediately repealed;

(b) examine the existing statutory and non-statutory rules, especially service rules framed under article 309 of the Constitution of India or under any other enactment, regulations and executive instructions and recommend their revision in order to bring them in conformity with the changed socio economic conditions of the Society and the various decisions of the Supreme Court and the High Courts;

(c) examine service legislations of the Government Departments, Boards, Corporations, other bodies and instrumentalities of State and suggest amendments to enhance the standards and efficiency of Government by proposing changes in recruitment system, promotional avenues, departmental examination, training programme, etc.

(d) examine the laws which affect the poor and carry out post-audit for socio-economic legislations and take all such measures as may be necessary to harness law and the legal process in the service of the poor;

(e) examine the system of judicial administration to ensure that it is responsive to the reasonable demands of the times and to suggest the ways for revision of procedural law with a view to eliminate delays, speedy clearance of arrears and for simplification of procedure to reduce and eliminate technicalities and devices of delay;

(f) ascertain if any provision .of the existing laws is inconsistent with the Constitution of India and to suggest the necessary alterations and modifications and also to examine the existing laws in the light of Directive Principles of Stale Policy and to suggest ways of improvement and reform and also to suggest such legislations as might be necessary to implement the Directive Principles and to attain the objectives set out in the Preamble of the Constitution;

(g) remove anomalies and ambiguities in the existing laws brought to light by conflicting decisions of the Supreme Court and the High Courts or otherwise also to suggest the omission of unnecessary and obsolete laws;

(h) suggest ways and means for improving of administration of Justice in the State and to consider and to propose to the Government on any other subject particularly relating to laws and judicial administration;

(i) obtain such information as to the legal systems of other States, Central Government or other countries as appears to the Commission likely to facilitate the performance of any of the its functions;

(j) suggest new legislations keeping in view social, economic and financial changes;

(k) any other matter of importance for the State Government.