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NAVDEEP SINGH SRAN (Querist) 24 September 2011 This query is : Resolved
what is difference between made COMMITTEE & appoint COMMISSION to investigate the matter.can both word use in the place of an other.

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Raj Kumar Makkad (Expert) 24 September 2011
Committee consists more than one person and generally it is not formed for legal purpose whereas commission generally consists one person and it is generally appointed by Court of Law to submit its report within the reference given o it.

prabhakar singh (Expert) 24 September 2011
A committee is a group of people who meet and deliberate according to fixed rules in order to make a decision or produce a document as a group.

A commission is a group of people who are entrusted (that is the etymology) by a government to carry out a task.However single
man commission can not be ruled out. Sometimes the task is a specific one (like ascertaining a particular fact or resolving a particular problem) and sometimes the task is more long-term (like the SEC, that is, Securities and Exchange Commission)

A commission ,though an agency,is usually distinct from other kinds of agency in two ways: it has no single, permanent administrator, and it has no independent or constitutional authority of its own and it operates under the authority of another part of the government or court or authority appointing it.

BUT you MAY be SURPRISED if I say a commission can be a committee (like the 9/11 Commission), but very few committees are commissions, and some commissions are not committees.