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The National Registration Rules, 1975
REGULATION 1 OF 1989
NOTIFICATION
Notification S.R.O. 177 (1)/75.-- ln exercise of the powers conferred by
section 15 of the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973), the Federal
Government is pleased to make the following rules, namely;
1. Short title and commencement.- These rules may be called the National Registration
Rules, 1975.
(2) They shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.
-- ln these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:---
(a) ‘Act’ means the National Registration Act, 1973
(LVI of 1973);
(b) ‘Schedule’ means Schedule to these rules;
(c) ‘Section’ means section of the Act.
3. Application forms and authorities to whom these are
to be submitted.- (1) An application
for registration under sub-section (2) of section 4 shall be in the appropriate
form set out in the Schedule and shall be made to any of the following
authorities, namely:---
(a) the District Registrar;
[(b) Registration counters established for the purpose;
and]
(c) the
(2) An application for:---
(a) [intimating the birth of a child ]: Omitted by
S.R.O. 67 (1)/79.
(b) Surrendering an identity card in pursuance of
section, 7, [***];
(c) obtaining a duplicate copy of an identity card;
and
(d) getting any change incorporated in identity card,
shall be in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule and shall be made to
the authority to whom the application under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of
section 4 or, as the case may be, clause (b) of that sub-section was originally
submitted.
(3) Application under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2) of
a citizen outside
(4) An application under clause (b) of sub-section (2)
of section 4 shall be made in duplicate and one copy thereof shall be returned
to the applicant duly signed by the receiving authority.
[3-A. Declarations to be made by certain persons.- Every person who has, at any time before
commencement of this rule, made an application for registration under
rule-section (2) of section 4, including any such person to whom an identity
card has already been issued, shall, if he had mentioned in such application
his religion to be Islam or himself to be a Muslim, -and has not made such
declaration, field with the authority to whom such application was made a
declaration in form R.G.I./(A) set out in the Schedule.]
4. Time limits for certain applications.-[(1) Application for registration of a newly born
child shall be made by his parent or guardian within sixty days of the birth of
the child].
(2) Application for obtaining a duplicate copy of an
identity card shall be made within thirty days of the less or destruction of
the original identity card.
(3) Application for getting may change incorporated in
an identity card may be made at any time.
(4) Application for the registration of death of a
citizen under eighteen years of age shall be made by his parents or guardian
within period of sixty days of the occurrence of his death.
5. Persons ‘who may verify the application form.- The following persons are authorised to verify or
attest the application forms, namely:---
(a) members of the Senate, the National Assembly, a
Provincial Assembly and a local body;
(b) Gazetted officers;
(c) officers of civil Armed Force and Armed Force;
(d) medical practitioners in the service of
Government;
(e) Police officers of the rank of S.H.O. and above;
(f) officers of the levy;
(g) officers of grade 16 and the above of the Post
office Department, and, in areas in which is on such officer, the branch
postmasters, and sub-postmaster;
(h) Headmasters or headmistresses of Government
schools;
(i) Principals and Lecturers of Government Colleges;
(j) Numberdars; and
(k) officers of the Revenue Department of the rank of
Naib-Tehsildar and above.
(2) In case the person verifying or attesting an
application is illiterate, he shall verify or attest the application by putting
his left hand thumb-impression which shall be countersigned by the supervisor
of Mobile Team of the Registration Organization or by any of the persons
authorised under sub-rule (1) who is not illiterate.
(3) A person verifying or attesting an application shall write or cause to be
written his full name legibly under this signature or thumb-impression and
shall also put his office stamp under it.
(4) A person shall verify or attest the application
only if he knows the applicant personally or through some one else and the
applicant belongs to the area where such person lives or works.
[5-A. Officer and authority who shall births and
deaths.-The officer or authority to
whom, or to which, births and deaths are required to be reported under any law
relating to registration of births and deaths and the death of a citizen who
has not attained the age of eighteen years, as the District Registrar.]
6. Submission of photograph by the applicant.-(l) Every male applicant who has attained the age of
eighteen years shall submit who carries of his recent photograph, of the size ‘2x1-1/2’
alongwith his application.
(2) A female applicant who attained the age eighteen
years may submit who copies for her recent photograph of the size ‘2x1-1/2’
alongwith her application. A female applicant who does not take to submit
photograph shall put her hand thumb-impression in the space provided for the
photograph in the application form.
(3) Citizens in the Armed Force, Civil Armed Forces, Civil Police or Federal
Security Forces shall submit their photographs without the service uniform.
(4) The photographs shall be in black and white.
7. Photograph or thumb-impression on the identity
card.--[(1) An identity card shall be
in the form set out in the Schedule and save as provided in sub-rule (2) shall
bear a photograph of the holder].
(2) In the case of female applicant who does not
submit her photograph, her right thumb-impression shall be put on the identity
card in the place provided for the photograph.
8. Treatment of certain persons under these rules. (1) An enmesh shall
be treated as male an identity card shall be issued accordingly.
(2) An applicant whose hands are amputated shall put
the impression of his left foot on the application form and, if the left foot
toe is also amputated, the impression of the right toe shall be put on the
application form.
9. Fee for the issue of duplicate identity card or for
making any changes in the card.-(1) A
fee of five rupees shall be payable by an applicant for obtaining a duplicate
copy of the identity card, in case his original card has been lost or destroyed
either by deposit in the local treasury under the Federal head of account ‘XLVI
Miscellaneous Fees, Fines’ or through special adhesive stamp, if available from
the post offices.
(2) If an identity card is to be replaced due to a
mistake of the post office or of the Registration Organization no fee for
issuing a duplicate copy of the identity card who applies for the in
corporation of any change in his identity card shall pay a fee of five rupees
in accordance with sub-rule (1).
10. Form of complaint to Magistrate.- A compliant to a Magistrate for trial for cases of
violation of the provisions of the Act shall be made by the District Registrar
in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule; and
For the schedule the following shall be substituted.
SCHEDULE
[See rule 3)
R.Q. 5 No ID DRO…………….
Office of the District Registrar
Registration Organization
From Dated.
District Registrar,
District Registration office
To
The Magistrate 1st Class
Subject- Registration of case under the National
Registration Act, 1973
Sir,
The following person has committed an offence which is
punishable under the provisions of section 11 of the National Registration Act,
1973.
Name and full address of the person who has committed
the offence Details of offence
2. Under the powers delegated to me under section 12
of the above Act, the case is referred to your Court. It is requested that the
case may kindly be registered and tried summarily under the powers of section
13 of the laid Act.
NOTIFICATION
EXPORT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTES BY TRAVELERS
[8th October, 1985]
1. Attention of Authorised Dealers is invited to para.
8, Chapter XVIII, page 120 of the Exchange Control Manual, 5th Edition, 1982
which, inter alia, provides that Pakistan nationals who are working or settled
abroad or members of their family staying with them who come to Pakistan on
temporary visit, are allowed to take out within them within 3 months from the
date of their arrival in Pakistan, the unspent balance of foreign exchange
(including foreign currency notes upto the value of US $ 50/- person or
equivalent thereof in other currencies) brought in by them at the time of their
entry into Pakistan. It has now been decided that the limit of US $ 50/- may be
raised to US $ 500/-per person subject to a maximum of US $ 2,000/- per family
or equivalent thereof in other currencies;
2. !t has also been decided to extend the period upto which foreign exchange
brought in from abroad by Pakistan nationals residing abroad can be retained,
from three months to one year vide Government of Pakistan Notification No. S.R.
805(1 )/85, dated the 20th August, 1985.
3. Foreign nationals are allowed to retain foreign
exchange brought by them into
4. Paragraph 8 of Chapter XVIII of the Exchange
Control Manual may, accordingly, be revised as under:---
‘8. Export of Foreign Currency Notes and Foreign
Exchange Instruments by Travelers.-Persons going to
5. A copy of the Government’s Notification No. S.R.O.
805(1)/85, dated the 20th August, 1985 referred to above is enclosed for your
record. A copy of the Government Notification No. S.R.O. 1016 (1)79, dated the
17th October, 1979 as amended vide Government Notification No. S.R.O.
805(1)/85, dated the 20th August, 1985 is also enclosed. The existing APP: 11/8
of the Exchange Control Manual, 5th Edition, 1982 may be replaced by the
enclosed amended Notification.
REGULATION 1 OF 1989
NATIONAL REGISTRATION (APPLICATION TO THE FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL
AREAS) REGULATION, 1989
A Regulation to apply the National Registration Act, 1973, to the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas
[Gazette
of
No. F. 1(4)-F.III/88, dated 31-1-1989. The following Regulation made by the
President is hereby published for general information:---
Whereas it is expedient to apply the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of
1973), to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (5) of Article
247 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the President is
pleased to make the following Regulation:---
1. Short title, extent and commencement.-(l) This Regulation may be
called the National Registration (Application to the Federally Administered
Tribal Areas) Regulation, 1989.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Application of the National Registration Act, 1973 (LVI of 1973). to
the -Federally Administered Tribal Areas.-The National Registration Act, 1973
(LVI of 1973), as in force in the North-West Frontier Province immediately
before the commencement of this Regulation and, so far as may be, all rules,
notifications and orders which may have been, or may be made or issued
thereunder shall apply to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
National Registration Act, 1973
National Registration (Application
to the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas) Regulation, 1989
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