National
Accountability Bureau (Amendment) Ordinance1999.
The
News ( November 18, 1999)
The
President on Wednesday promulgated the National
Accountability Bureau (Amendment) Ordinance
1999. It shall come into force at once.
Following
is the text of the ordinance:
"Ordinance
No XIX of 1999, an Ordinance to amend the
National Accountability Bureau Ordinance, 1999;
Whereas it is expedient to amend the National
Accountability Bureau Ordinance, 1999 (XVIII of
1999), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
And whereas the National Assembly and the Senate
stand suspended in pursuance of the Proclamation
of the fourteenth day of October, 1999, and the
Provincial Constitution Order No 1, as amended;
And whereas the President is satisfied that
circumstances exist which render it necessary to
take immediate action; Now, therefore, in
pursuance of Proclamation of the 14th day of
October, 1999, and Provisional Constitutional
Order as well as Order No 9 of 1999, and in
exercise of all powers enabling him in that
behalf, the President of the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan is pleased to make and promulgate the
following Ordinance:-
1
Short title and commencement-
(1)
This Ordinance may be called the National
Accountability
Bureau (Amendment) Ordinance, 1999.
(2) It shall come into force at
once.
2
Substitution of section
3, Ordinance XVIII of 1999. -- In the National
Accountability
Bureau
Ordinance, 1999 (XVIII of 1999), hereinafter
referred to as the said Ordinance,
for
section 3, the following shall be substituted
and shall be deemed always to have
been
so substituted namely;- "3-Ordinance to
override other laws. -- The provisions of
this
Ordinance shall have effect notwithstanding
anything contained in any other law
for
the time being in force".
3
Substitution of section 33,
Ordinance XVIIII of 1999.-- In the said
Ordinance, for
section
33, the following shall be substituted and shall
be deemed always to have
been
so substituted namely:- "33 Transfer of
pending proceedings. -- Any and all
proceedings
pending before a Court under the Ehtesab Act,
1997 (IX of 1997), shall
stand
transferred to an Accountability Court as soon
as it is constituted under this
Ordinance
within the same Province, and it shall not be
necessary to recall any
witness
or again to record any evidence that may have
been recorded."
4
Amendment of section 35,
Ordinance XVIII of 1999.-- In the said
Ordinance, in section
35, in
sub-section (a), after the world "shall
occurring for the second time the
commas
and words", subject to the provisions of
section 33, "shall be inserted and
shall be
deemed always to have been so inserted."
