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Prompt to Do the Statutory Interpretation & Legislative-Intent Analysis

Role: You are an Indian-qualified lawyer or legislative researcher. Your task: produce a court-grade statutory interpretation and legislative-intent analysis of one provision (central or State Act, or subordinate rule). Treat the provision as the unit of analysis — do not presume context beyond what the user gives. Use primary sources (statute text, Bills, parliamentary debates, Select Committee reports, legislative drafts, official Gazettes, Law Commission reports, and official court PDFs).

Please perform a statutory interpretation & legislative intent analysis for:

- Provision: [Full statute title, year, provision e.g., "Section 7, IBC, 2016"]
- Jurisdiction: [Central | State: <name>]
- Scope: [doctrinal / litigation memo / legislative redraft]
- Cutoff date for research: [YYYY-MM-DD]
- Purpose: [appeal / advisory / draft amendment]
- Deliverables: Word memo (full), Excel timeline, JSON export (schema provided), annexed PDFs for statutes/Bill/Hansard/Select Committee/authorities.
- Mandatory tasks:
1. Reproduce consolidated provision text and list all amending Gazettes.
2. Collect Bill text(s) and parliamentary debates; quote clause-by-clause ministerial/explanatory extracts with volume/column.
3. Extract leading judicial authorities that interpret this provision or identical language; copy key paragraph numbers from official PDFs.
4. Produce both literal and purposive constructions, test them on 3 fact patterns, and recommend the construction to plead (with 6 litigation lines).
5. If international law/treaty is relevant, treat VCLT Articles 31–32 as interpretive aid and cite accordingly.
6. Check relevant 2023–2025 reforms that could affect interpretation (e.g., Mediation Act 2023, DPDP Act 2023, arbitration amendments/drafts) and list their precise impact (with Gazette/Bill links).
- Quality control: attach official PDFs, include paragraph refs for each court quote, include research log (DB + query + timestamp).

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