The new Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order 2019, dated May 30, allows all states to constitute their own FTs, earlier unique to Assam, to address the question of citizenship of a person, reports News 18 on June 10. The amendment empowers District Magistrates in all States and Union Territories to set up FTs to detect foreigners. The amendment substitutes “the central government” with “the central government or the state government or the union territory administration or the District Collector or the District Magistrate,” allowing all latter authorities to refer to the question: whether a person is not a foreigner within the meaning of the Foreigners Act, to FTs for its opinion and thereby creating one. Further, sub-clause 17 of the new paragraph 3A in the Order reads: “Subject to the provision of this Order, the Tribunal shall have the power to regulate its own procedure for disposal of the cases expeditiously in a time bound manner.”