Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division

The division is focused on modernizing legal frameworks to address technology-enabled crimes while managing the administrative burden of vetting urgent legislative amendments.

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.