Updated: Sunday May 03, 2015/AlAhad
Rajab 15, 1436/Ravivara
Vaisakha 13, 1937, at 08:56:32 AM
Ministry
of Law, Justice and Human Rights
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S.R.O. (I)/2015.In exercise of the powers conferred by section 25 of the Publication of Laws of Pakistan (Regulation) Ordinance, 2015, the Federal Government is pleased to make the following rules, namely:---
1.
Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the
Publication of Laws of
Pakistan Rules, 2015.
(2) They shall come
into force at once.
2.
Definitions. (1) In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in
the subject or context,---
(a)
Cell means the laws of Pakistan Cell established under
section 6 of the Ordinance;
(b)
Director means the Director of the Cell;
(c)
Ordinance means the Publication of Laws of Pakistan (Regulation)
Ordinance, 2015;
(d)
publisher means a person who is publishing or who intends
to publish any law of Pakistan in the form of a book, booklet,
pamphlet, journal, or in any electronic form, and also includes
a person who is involved in the publication of laws of Pakistan along with any other business;
and
(e)
reviewer
means a person
who reviews
a
law of
(2) All other words used
but
not defined herein shall have the same meanings as are assigned to them under the Ordinance.
3.
Registration of publishers.- (1) All the publishers
who are involved in the publication of laws of Pakistan
shall, within ninety days of the commencement of the Ordinance
and in accordance with the procedure
laid down in these rules, get themselves registered with the Cell.
(2) Subject
to sub-rule (1), an application containing all the particulars
as specified in Form B shall be submitted
to the Cell.
4.
Registration fee.- (1) Any publisher seeking registration with the Cell shall pay one time registration fee of one hundred thousand rupees to the Cell and thereafter an annual fee of twenty thousand rupees within
thirty days of the expiry of first year of
his registration.
Explanation.- The one time registration fee of one hundred thousand
rupees shall include
the annual fee for
the first year.
(2) The registration fee, annual fee, review fee and the amount
received by way of fine imposed by the Cell or any other amount received
by the Cell under the Ordinance and these rules, shall be deposited
in a separate
account maintained for this purpose in the accounts
office of the Cell thus forming
part of Federal treasury.
5.
Undertaking for registration.- Any publisher who applies for registration shall submit an undertaking to the Cell to the effect that the publisher
shall,---
(a)
publish the laws of
(b)
before submission to the Cell, get his specimen
copy of the proposed publication of a law of Pakistan
compared with the text
of
the official publication of laws of Pakistan
as published in the official Gazette, by a person holding a law degree from a recognized university or a person trained
in the job of proof reading
of
legal publications, and have a statement recorded in writing by such a person that the contents
of the laws of Pakistan reproduced in the publication are accurate;
(c)
ensure that the cover page of every edition or publication of a law of Pakistan clearly bears
the name and registration number of the publisher, the batch number of the publication,
the name of the printer
or database operator, and the day, month
and year
till which it has been updated;
(d)
write his name and registration number along with the date of publication, on each page of his publication;
(e)
publish the laws of
(f)
print the certificate of accuracy
at a conspicuous place in the publication
to which
it relates;
(g)
evolve a mechanism
to ascertain the identity and address
of his customers, subscribers and book-sellers, who purchase the publications from him, in order to ensure
recalling of any published material which is published
in contravention of the Ordinance and these rules; and
(h)
in case the publisher is a corporation, provide a copy of the Articles
and Memorandum of Association to the Cell along with the names of Directors, Managers and other office
bearers of
that corporation.
6.
Registration number.-
On fulfilling the requirements under rules 4 and 5, a publisher
shall stand registered and upon registration, the Cell
shall allot a distinct registration number to that publisher.
7.
Grounds for de-registration.- (1) A publisher may be de- registered
by the Cell on violation
of any of the provisions of undertaking enumerated under rule 5, or in default
of any amount of fee or fine under rule 4, or not fulfilling the requirements under sub-rule
(7) of rule 9 or rule 10.
(2) The Cell shall not pass an order of de-registration of a publisher
unless the publisher has been served a notice and afforded
an opportunity of
hearing.
8.
Terms and conditions of Director
and other employees of Cell.- (1) The Cell shall be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the Federal Government on Management Position Scale-III (MP-III), and shall be a law graduate with sufficient experience of proof reading
of laws, translation
of
laws,
maintaining and updating
of
law books, journals,
etc., administration and management.
(2)
The Federal Government may also appoint
as many Deputy
Directors, Assistant Directors, and other staff members on market based salary as may be required
for the efficient working of the Cell including the maintenance of accounts
of the Cell, the internal
auditing of the Cell and the enforcement of the functions
of the Cell under the Ordinance
and these rules.
(3)
The minimum qualifications for the employees
of the Cell appointed
under sub-rule (2)
shall be specified in the advertisement
in the newspapers by the
Federal Government.
(4)
At least
one office of the Cell shall be established
in the Law Department of each Province,
headed by a Deputy Director who shall be appointed
by the respective Provincial Government on market based salary and shall be a law graduate with sufficient experience of proof reading
of laws, translation of laws, maintaining and updating of law books,
journals, etc., administration and
management.
(5)
A
Provincial Government may appoint as many Assistant Directors and other staff, on market based salary, as may be required for the efficient
working of the office of the Cell established in the Law Department
of that Province.
(6)
The minimum qualifications for the employees
of the office of the Cell appointed
under sub-rule (5) shall be specified
in the advertisement in the newspapers by the respective Provincial Government.
9.
Certificate of accuracy.- (1)
Any registered publisher, seeking review from the Cell, of the laws of Pakistan to be published
by him shall, after payment of review fee, send ten copies of the material to be reviewed in double space and font 14, along with ten Gazette copies of the official
publication relating to
the material to be reviewed.
(2)
The review fee shall be one rupee per word and the number of words shall always
be counted through the facility of word counter
in the computer.
(3) The review fee received from the review of a Provincial law shall be deposited in the treasury of the respective Province and the fee received from the review of a Federal law shall be deposited in the accounts office of the Cell.
(4)
The Cell shall, within a maximum
period of sixty working days from the date of submission of publication material to be reviewed,
complete the review, correct errors and issue certificate of accuracy thereon in the manner specified in Form A to these rules.
(5)
The certificate of accuracy
obtained by the publisher
shall be conclusive proof for the publisher for having fulfilled all the requirements
under the Ordinance and these
rules.
(6)
After the issuance of certificate of accuracy,
if the Cell finds, on its own or through any
person, that an error exists in the publication in respect of which the certificate of accuracy
was issued, the Cell shall recall all the publications published by the publisher containing such error and return
the same to the publisher
after rectifying the error at the expense of the Cell.
(7) Any publication referred to in sub-rule (6), if has been sold by the publisher, shall be recalled by the publisher for onward transmission to the Cell for rectification of error under sub-rule (6).
10.
Supply of copies by the publisher.- A publisher
who, after obtaining the certificate of accuracy,
publishes laws of
11.
Responsibility of book-sellers.- (1) On the commencement of these rules,
all the book-sellers shall purchase the publications containing the laws of Pakistan
only from a publisher
registered under these
rules.
(2) In order to safeguard the interest of end consumers, the book-sellers shall also ensure that all the publications purchased under sub-rule
(1), contain a certificate of accuracy
issued by the
Cell.
12.
Filing of complaint
by Cell.- The Director of the Cell in case of Federal
Government and the Deputy Director
of the office of the Cell in case of Provincial Government may authorize any Assistant Director to file
a complaint with
the Session Judge under the
Ordinance.
[See rule 9(4)]
I NAME S/o NAME working as DESIGNATION , in the
Laws of Pakistan
Cell, established in the Ministry of Law, Justice
and Human Rights, Islamabad, hereby
certify on THIS day of
MONTH 20 YEAR that the material containing the laws of Pakistan,
comprising number of
pages and number of words,
received through
application number from the Publisher NAME
duly
registered with the Cell
vide Registration
number_ , intended to be published
by
the
publisher for batch number of
his publication, has been reviewed and made absolutely free from errors, hence
is fit for publication.
[See rule 3(2)]
An application made under sub-rule (2) of rule 3 of the
Publication of Laws
of Pakistan Rules, 2015 shall be
accompanied by the
following documents:-
(i)
Name and legal
personality of the publisher
(ii)
Registration
number of legal personality of
publisher
(iii)
Address
of the
publisher
(iv)
National
Taxation Number of the publisher
(v)
General
Sales Tax Number of the publisher
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