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Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1951
ACT No. XXVI of 1951
(For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gaz. of P.,1951, Pt. V, p. 182.
The
Act has been applied to Baluchistan in respect of enactments in force in
[10th May, 1951]
An
Act to revise the Federal laws and make certain declarations in this regard in
order to enable the same to be printed.
WHEREAS it is expedient, to the end that the Federal laws may be known in their
true form, that all the Central Acts and Ordinances of Pakistan as enacted,
adapted, modified or amended since the 14th of August, 1947 and in force should
be printed;
AND WHEREAS certain steps to enable such printing have already been taken by
the promulgation of certain Orders of the Governor General in 1947, 1948 and
1949, and by the enactment of certain amendments and repeals;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that these steps should now be completed by giving
effect to the amendments, repeals and declarations in this Act contained so that
by establishing the text of the existing Central Acts and Ordinances of
Pakistan the same may now, for the first time and in their true form, be
printed in their entirety;
It is hereby enacted as follows:---
1. Short title ---- This Act may be called the Federal Laws (Revision and
Declaration) Act, 1951.
2. Whole repeal of certain Federal laws. ---The Acts and Ordinances specified
in the First Schedule are hereby wholly repealed.
3. Partial repeal of certain Federal laws. ------The Acts and Ordinances
specified in the Second Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in
the fourth column thereof.
4. Amendment of certain Federal laws. ----The Acts and Ordinances specified in
the Third Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner mentioned
in the fourth column thereof.
5. Amendment of certain laws on Federal subjects. ----The Acts specified in the
Fourth Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner mentioned
therein.
6. Declaration regarding laws not applicable in Pakistan.----The Acts and
Ordinances specified in the Fifth Schedule which were in force in British India
on the fourteenth day of August, 1947, are hereby declared to be no part of the
laws of Pakistan.
7. Savings.---The repeal by this Act of any Act or Ordinance shall not
affect,---
(i) the operation of any Act or Ordinance so repealed or the validity,
invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered
thereunder; or
(ii) any right, title, privilege, obligation or liability, acquired, accrued or
incurred, thereunder or any release or discharge already granted of or from
any, debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity,
already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing; or
(iii) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence
committed against any Act or Ordinance so repealed; or
(iv) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such
right, title, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or
punishment as aforesaid;
and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted,
continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be
imposed, as if this Act had not been passed;
nor shall the repeal by this Act of any Act or Ordinance by which the text of
any law was amended by the express omission, insertion or substitution of any
matter, affect the continuance of any such amendment in operation at the
commencement of this Act, unless a different intention was expressly stated in
the Act or Ordinance by which the amendment was made;
nor shall this Act revive or restore anything not in force or existing at the
time of its commencement, or affect any law in which any Act or Ordinance
hereby repealed has been applied, incorporated or referred to, or affect any
principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form, or cause of
pleading, practice, or procedure, or existing usage, customs, privilege,
restriction, exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding that they
respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognized or derived by, in
or from any Act or Ordinance hereby repealed.
8. Certain expressions to be substituted.---Wherever the expression “British
Baluchistan” or the expression “West Punjab” occurs (otherwise than in a title
or preamble or in a citation or description of any enactment) in a Central Act
or Ordinance, whether an Act or Ordinance mentioned in the Second or Third
Schedule to this Act or not, then, unless that expression is by this Act
expressly directed to be otherwise modified, or to stand unmodified or to be
omitted, there shall be substituted for the first expression, the expression
“Baluchistan”, and for the second expression, the expression “the Punjab”.
9. References to Acts by short title.---Every reference in any Central Act or
Ordinance ordered by this Act to be printed, to any other Central Act or
Ordinance in force at the time of the printing shall refer to that Act or
Ordinance by its short title as in force at the time of the printing.
10. Complete edition of central Acts and Ordinances to be printed---‑(1)
The Central Acts and Ordinances of Pakistan as in force immediately after the
passing of this Act shall be printed as soon as may be thereafter.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act every Central Act and Ordinance so to
be printed shall be printed subject to the provisions of any law hereafter
enacted and in force at the time of the said printing.
(3) Any Central Act passed hereafter and i force before the said printing is
completed shall, notwithstanding that it may be otherwise printed, be also
printed as part of the said printing.
(4) In the printing of the Estate Duty Act, 1950, the sections and sub‑sections
thereof shall be numbered and the clauses and sub‑clauses thereof shall
be lettered in due order, references in any provision of the Act to any other
provision thereof being altered where necessary and printed accordingly.
11. Declaration of expiry.---For the removal of doubts, the Coal Production Fund
(Repealing) Ordinance, 1947, and the Tea (Export Licenses) Ordinance, 1947, are
hereby declared to have expired on the 25 October, 1947, and the 23rd November,
1947, respectively.
Ord VI of 1947 Ord. VIII of 1947.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
ACTS AND ORDINANCES WHOLLY REPEALED
(See section 2)
[Not Reproduced (The Schedules have not been reproduced here as the repeals,
amendments, modifications, etc., made by them have been given effect to in the
appropriate places in printing the Statute‑book.)]
THE SECOND SCHEDULE
ACTS AND ORDINANCES PARTIALLY REPEALED
(See section 3)
[Not Reproduced (The Schedules have not been reproduced here as the repeals,
amendments, modifications, etc., made by them have been given effect to in the
appropriate places in printing the Statute‑book.)]
THE THIRD SCHEDULE
AMENDMENTS
(See section 4)
[Not Reproduced (The Schedules have not been reproduced here as the repeals,
amendments, modifications, etc., made by them have been given effect to in the
appropriate places in printing the Statute‑book.)]
THE FOURTH SCHEDULE
MODIFICATIONS OF CERTAIN ACTS, ORIGINALLY PASSED IN THE
PROVINCES AND NOW THE CONCERN OF THE CENTRE
(See section 5)
[Not Reproduced (The Schedules have not been reproduced here as the repeals,
amendments, modifications, etc., made by them have been given effect to in the
appropriate places in printing the Statute‑book.)]
THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
ACTS AND ORDINANCES NOT PART OF
(See section 6)
[Not Reproduced (The Schedules have not been reproduced here as the repeals,
amendments, modifications, etc., made by them have been given effect to in the
appropriate places in printing the Statute book.
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