Updated: Saturday December 14, 2013/AsSabt
Safar 11, 1435/Sanivara
Agrahayana 23, 1935, at 05:09:26 PM
[1][1]The [2][2][
(W.P. Ordinance XXXII of
1960)
[
An
Ordinance to provide for alteration of limits of districts and constitution of
new districts in [3][3][the
Preamble.— WHEREAS it is expedient in the public
interest to provide for alteration of limits of districts and constitution of
new districts in [4][4][the
Now,
THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Presidential Proclamation of the seventh day of
October, 1958, and having received the previous instructions of the President,
the Governor of West Pakistan is pleased, in exercise of all powers enabling
him in that behalf to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:-
1. Short title and extent.— (1) This Ordinance may be called the [5][5][
[6][6][(2) It
extends to the whole of the province of [7][7][the
2. Definitions.— In this Ordinance, “Government” means the [8][8][Provincial Government of the
3. Alteration
of limits of districts and constitution of new districts.— Notwithstanding
anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, Government
may, by notification on and from a date to be appointed therein (hereinafter
referred to as the appointed date), alter the limits of a district or
constitute a new district.
4. Application of laws.— Where in pursuance of section 3 any area
(hereinafter referred to as the added area) is added to any district
(hereinafter referred to as the district concerned):-
(a) no law in force in the district concerned
immediately before the appointed date, shall, except as hereinafter provided,
extend to the added area;
(b) all laws in force in the added area
immediately before the appointed date shall continue until altered, repealed or
amended by a competent authority;
(c) references in the laws in force in the added
areas immediately before the appointed date to any authority, functionary,
officer or office, howsoever worded, shall, on and from the appointed date, be
construed as references to the corresponding authority, functionary, officer or
office in the district concerned;
(d) Government may, by notified order extend any
law which is in force in the district concerned and which the [9][9][Governor of the
6. Adaptations.—
With effect on and from the sixteenth September, 1960, references to the district
of Shahpur, howsoever worded, appearing in any Act, Ordinance, order, bye-law,
rule, regulation, notification, form or instrument, which immediately before
the said date has the force of law, in the said district, shall be construed as
references to the district of Sargodha.
[1][1]This Ordinance was
promulgated by the Governor of West Pakistan on 8th October, 1960; published in
the West Pakistan Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 13th December, 1960, pages
4703-05; saved and given permanent effect by Article 225 of the Constitution of
the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1962).
[2][2]Substituted by the Punjab
Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (Pb. A.O. 1 of 1974), for “
[3][3]Ibid.
[4][4]Ibid.
[5][5]Ibid.
[6][6]Substituted
by the West Pakistan Laws (Extension to
[7][7]Substituted by the Punjab
Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (Pb. A.O. 1 of 1974), for “
[8][8]Substituted ibid., for “Government of West
Pakistan”.
[9][9]Substituted by the Punjab
Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (Pb. A.O. 1 of 1974), for “Governor of
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