Ques: Write short note on Joint Administrative Tribunal.

Ans: Administrative Tribunals was set-up by an act of Parliament, Administrative Tribunals

Act, 1985. It owes its origin to Article 323 A of the Constitution. The Administrative
Tribunals Act, 1985 provides for three types of tribunals: Central Administrative Tribunal
(CAT), State Administartive Tribunal (SAT), and Joint Administrative Tribunal (JAT).
A Joint Administrative Tribunal (JAT) is formed, when two or more states come together and
ask for a tribunal under sub section (3) of section 4 of the Administrative Tribunals Act,
1985. Such a Joint Tribunal would then exercise powers of the administrative tribunals on
behalf of such states. Their powers are more or less synonymous to the powers of the State
Administrative Tribunals.