THE PROVINCIALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREAS

(APPLICATION OF LAWS) REGULATION, 1994.

([1][KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA] REGULATION NO. I OF 1994)

CONTENTS

PREAMBLE

SECTIONS

1.         Short title, extent and commencement.

2.         Definitions.

3.         Application of certain laws to Provincially Administered Tribal Areas.

4.         Certain laws to cease to operate.

SCHEDULE

THE PROVINCIALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREAS

(APPLICATION OF LAWS) REGULATION, 1994.

([2][KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA] REGULATION NO. I OF 1994)

[26^th May, 1994]

A

REGULATION

to provide for application of certain laws to the Provincially

Administered Tribal Areas of the [3][Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]

            WHEREAS it is expedient to apply certain laws to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of the [4][Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] or a part thereof;

            AND WHEREAS clause (4) of Article 247 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan provided that the Governor of a Province, with the prior approval of the President, may, with respect to any matter within the legislative competence of the Provincial Assembly, make Regulation for a Provincially Administered Tribal Areas or any part thereof;

            NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers aforesaid, the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province with the approval of the President, is pleased to make the following Regulation:

1.         Short title, extent and commencement.---(1) This Regulation may be called the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Application of Laws) Regulation, 1994.

            (2)        It extends to whole of the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of the [5][Khyber Pakhtunkhwa].

            (3)        It shall come into force at once.

2.         Definitions.---In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise required, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say-

(a)        “Government” means the Government of the [6][Khyber Pakhtunkhwa];

(b)        “Schedule” means the Schedule appended to this Regulation.

3.         Application of certain laws to Provincially Administered Tribal Areas.---The laws specified in column 2 of the Schedule, as in force in the [7][Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] immediately before the commencement of this Regulation, and so far as may be, all rules, notifications and orders made or issued thereunder, shall apply to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of the [8][Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] or a part thereof, as mentioned against each such laws in column 4 thereof.

4.         Certain laws to cease to operate.---(1) If, immediately before the commencement of this Regulation, there was in force in the respective areas any law, instrument, custom or usage having the force of law corresponding to the provisions of any of the laws applied to those areas by this Regulation, such law, instrument, custom or usage shall, upon such commencement, cease to have effect in those areas.

            (2)        Nothing in sub-section (1) shall effect-

(a)        the previous operation of any such law, instrument, custom or usage; or

(b)        any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence under such law, instrument, custom or usage; or

(c)        any investigation, proceeding or remedy in respect of any such penalty, forfeiture on punishment and any such investigation, proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if sub-section (1) had not come into force.

SCHEDULE

[ See Section 3]