ACT NO. XIX OF 2015
PAKISTAN ARMY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015
An Act further to amend the Pakistan Army Act, 1952
[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, 21st November, 2015]
No. F. 22(24)/2015-Legis.–The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on the 17th November, 2015 and is hereby published for general information:–
WHEREAS, it is expedient further to amend the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXIX of 1952), for the purpose hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted as follows:–
1. Short title and commencement.–(1) This Act may be called the Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act. 2015.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of Section 2, Act XXXIX of 1952.–In the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXIX of 1952).–
(a) in Section 2, in sub-section (1), in Clause (d), in sub-Clause (iv), in the second proviso, for the full stop at the end a colon shall be substituted and after the second proviso amended as aforesaid the following new proviso shall be added, namely:–
“Provided further that notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, any person arrested, detained or held in custody by the armed forces, civil armed forces or law enforcement agencies and kept under arrest, custody or detention before the coming into force of the Pakistan Army (Amendment)Act, 2015 (Act II of 2015) shall be deemed to have been arrested or detained pursuant to the provisions of this Act as amended by the Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act, 2015 (Act II of 2015) if the offence in respect of which such arrest or detention was made also constitutes an offence referred to in sub-Clause (iii) or sub-Clause (iv):
Provided further that no suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under sub-Clause (iii) or sub-Clause (iv).”;
(b) after Section 2B, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:–
“2C Protection to Witnesses, President, Members of the Court, Defending Officers, Prosecutors and persons concerned with Court proceedings.–The convening authority or the Court constituted under this Act may, make such orders or take such measures, like sitting in camera, not publishing the names of Court officials etc, as it deems fit, within available resources, for the protection of witnesses, President, members, prosecutors, defending officers and other persons concerned in Court proceedings for an offence under this Act, as may be prescribed.”
