Frontier Corps Ordinance, 1959

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THE FRONTIER CORPS ORDINANCE, 1959 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
1. Short title commencement and application.  
 
2. Definitions. 
 
3. Powers to maintain Frontier Corps. 
 
4. Constitution of Frontier Corps. 
 
5. Appointment and powers of superior officers.   
6. Appointment of subordinate officers and men. 
 
7. Superintendence, command control and administration of Frontier Corps. 
 
8. More heinous offences. 
 
9. Less heinous offences.  
 
10. Summary punishments. 
 
11. Place of imprisonment, and liability to dismissal on imprisonment. 
 
12. Deductions from pay and allowances. 
 
13. Collective fines. 
 
14. Resignation and withdrawal from the Frontier Corps. 
 
15. General duties of members of the Frontier Corps. 
 
16. Protection of persons serving in the Frontier Corps. 
 
17. Jurisdiction. 
 
18. Commencement and execution of sentence. 
 
19. Execution of sentence of detention. 
 
20. [Interim Custody of offenders sentenced to transportation.] 
 
21. Conveyance of prisoners from place to place. 
 
22. Communication of certain orders to civil prison officers. 
 
23. Custody of offenders. 
 

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24. Capture of deserters. 
 
25. Saving. 
 
26. Power to make rules. 
 
27. [Repeal]. 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE FRONTIER CORPS ORDINANCE, 1959 
 
ORDINANCE No. XXVI OF 1959 
 
 [29th April, 1959] 
 
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the regulation of the Frontier 
Corps Units 1***. 
 
 WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Regulation of the 
Frontier Corps Units 1*** ; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamation of the seventh day of October, 1958, 
and in exercise of all powers enab ling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make and pro -
mulgate the following Ordinance, namely:— 
  1. Short title commencement and application. —(1) This Ordinance may be called the 
Frontier Corps Ordinance, 1959. 
 (2) It shall come into force at once. 
 (3) It shall apply to the members of the Frontier Corps wherever they may be. 
 2. Definitions. −In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or 
context,— 
(a) “active service” means service against an external aggressor or enemy, or 
against hostile tribes, raiders or other hostile persons, or persons co -operating 
with or assisting such aggressor, enemy, tribes, raiders or hostile persons; 
(b)  “Commandant” means a person appointed under section 5 to be a 
Commandant of a Unit of the Frontier Corps; 
  (c)  “custody” means the arrest or confinement of a person according to the us ages 
   of the service; 
2[(cc) “Deputy Inspector General” means 3[a] the Deputy Inspector General, Frontier 
Corps, appointed under section 5;] 
(d) “Frontier Corps” means the Corps or Unit referred to in section 3 or any of the 
individual forces comprising it, as the context may require; 
(e)  “Inspector General” means 3[an] Inspector General, Frontier Corps, appointed 
under section 5 4* * *; 
(f)  “Junior Commissioned Officer” means a person com missioned, gazetted or in 
pay, as a Junior Commissioned Officer in the Frontier Corps; 
 
1 The words “operating in West Pakistan” omitted by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 2. 
2 Cl. (cc) ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 3. 
3 Subs. and shall be deemed always to have been so subs. by the Frontier Corps. (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 3. 
4 The words “and includes the Deputy Inspector General, Frontier Corps appointed under that section” omitted, by Act 1 of 1965 s. 3. 
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 (g)  “member of the Frontier Corps” means a person other than a person appointed 
under section 5 by the 1[Federal Government], who at the commencement of 
this Ordinance, is serving in the Frontier Corps or who after the 
commencement of this Ordinance has been appointed to the Frontier Corps 
under this Ordi nance and has signed a recruiting roll set out in the Second 
Schedule and the affirmation in the form set out in the Third Schedule, if not 
already signed by him: 
Provided that every person who has from the date of enrolment been in the receipt of pay as a  
member of the Frontier Corps and has been borne on its roll shall be deemed to be a member of the 
Frontier Corps notwithstanding that he has not signed the said recruiting roll and affirmation; 
(h) “officer” means a person, other than a Junior Com missioned Officer, who  is 
commissioned, gazetted or in pay, as an officer of the Pakistan Army or of the 
Frontier Corps; 
2[(i) “Political Officer” means the Political Agent, Additional Political Agent, 
Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Political Agent or Magistrate  under whose 
jurisdiction any Unit of the Frontier Corps may be stationed;]. 
(j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; and 
(k) the expressions “assault”, “criminal force”, “fraudulently”, “murder”, “reason 
to believe” and “volu ntarily causing hurt” have the meaning respectively 
assigned to them in the Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860). 
3. Powers to maintain Frontier Crops. —There shall continue to be maintained by the 
1[Federal Government] the Frontier Corps forces or units as listed in the First Schedule, primarily for 
the better protection and adminis tration of the external frontiers of Pakistan within the limits of or 
adjoining the 3[Tribal Areas] of 4[Pakistan]: 
Provided that the 1[Federal Government] may, by notification in  the official Gazette, make 
any addition to or omission from the list in that Schedule as and when a new force or unit is raised or 
an existing one disbanded. 
4. Constitution of Frontier Crops. —The Frontier Corps shall be constituted in such 
manner, and th e members of the Frontier Corps shall receive such pay, pension and other 
remuneration, and shall enjoy such leave and other privileges as may be prescribed by the 2[Federal 
Government] from time to time. 
5. Appointment and powers of superior officers .—(1) The 1[Federal Government] may 
appoint 5[as many Inspector s General, Frontier Corps, and Deputy Inspector s General, Frontier 
Corps, as it considers necessary] and the Commandants or other officers of any unit of the Frontier 
Corps. 
 
 
 
1 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2 for “Central Government”. 
2 Cl. (i) subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1965 (35 of 1965), s. 2, for the original clause (i) (with effect from  the 15th May, 1965), have 
further been subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 2, to read as above. 
3 Subs. by A.O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch., for “Special Areas”. 
4 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Sch., for “West Pakistan”. 
5 Subs. and shall be deemed always to have been so subs., by Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 4.  
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1[(1A) Where the Federal Government appoints more than one Inspector General or Deputy 
Inspector General, it shall, by notification in the official Gazette, specify the area within which each 
one of them shall exercise jurisdiction under this Ordinance.] 
(2) Every Commandant and other officer so appointed shall possess, and may exercise, such 
powers and authority over the subordinate officers and members of the Frontier Corps for the time 
being under their command as is provided by or under this Ordinance. 
6. Appointment of subordinate officers and men. —(1) The appointment of all subordinate 
officers and other members of the Frontier Corps shall be made by the Inspector General or the 
Commandants in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. 
(2) Before a person is appointed under sub -section (1) the statement contained in the 
recruiting roll and affirmation set out respectively in the Second and Third Schedules shall at any 
convenient place be read out and, if necessary, explained to him in the presence of a Commandant, or 
other officer appointed under section 5, and shall thereafter be sig ned by such person in 
acknowledgement of its having been so read out to him. 
(3) When the affirmation set out in the Thir d Schedule is read out it shall be repeated by the 
person making affirmation before he signs it. 
 7. Superintendence, command control and administration of Frontier Crops. —(1) The 
superintendence of and command and control over the Frontier Corps shall ves t in the 2[Federal 
Government], and the Frontier Corps shall be administered, commanded and controlled by the 
Inspector General and the Commandants in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and any 
rules made thereunder and such orders and instru ctions as may be made or issued by the 2[Federal 
Government] from time to time. 
 3[(2) Every Frontier Corps and the Commandant of every Unit of a Frontier Corps shall, in 
time of peace, be subject, save in respect of administration, internal economy and tr aining, to the 
directions of the Political Agent or the Deputy Commissioner of the Area within which the 
headquarters of the Frontier Corps are located.] 
8. More heinous offences.—(1) Every member of the Frontier Corps who— 
(a)  begins, excites, causes or conspires to cause or joins in any mutiny, or being 
present at any mutiny does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress it, or 
knowing, or having reason to believe in, the existence of any mutiny or of any 
intention or conspiracy to mutiny, or of any conspiracy against the authority of 
the Gov ernment does not, without delay, give information thereof to his 
superior officer ; or 
(b)  uses, or attempts to use, criminal force to, or commits an assault on, his 
superior officer whether on or off duty and wheth er or not knowing or having 
reason to believe him to be such ; or 
(c)  shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post or guard which 
is committed to his charge, or which it is his duty to defend ; or 
(d)  directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assists or relieves,  
 
 
1 Ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2. 
2 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s.2, for “Central Government”. 
3 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 4, for the original sub-section (2). 
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any person in arms against the authority of the Government, or omits to disclose immediately to his 
superior officer any such correspondence coming to his knowledge ; or 
1[(dd)  deserts the Frontier Corps ; or] 
(e)  while on active service— 
(i)  disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or 
 2*  *       *   *  *        *              * 
(iii)  being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly 
relieved or without leave ; or 
(iv)  leaves his superior officer or his post or party to go in search of 
plunder ; or 
(v)  quits his guard, picquet party or patrol without being regularly relieved 
or without leave ; or 
(vi)  uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person bringing 
provisions or other ne cessaries to camp or quarters, or forces a safe -
guard, or breaks into any house or other place for plunder, or plunders, 
destroys or damages any property of any kind ; or 
(vii)  intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action o r in camp, 
garrison or quarters ; or 
(viii)  displays cowardice in the execution of his duty; shall be punishable, in 
the case of clause (a), with death or imprisonment for a term which 
may extend to fourteen years, and in other cases, with 3[imprisonment] 
for life or for a period of not less than seven years, or with 
imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, or with 
fine which may extend to three months’ pay and allowances excluding 
warm clothing and half mounting allowances, or with fin e to that 
extent in addition to such sentence of 4* * *  imprisonment: 
 
Provided that if any member of the Frontier Corps while on active service with 
a force beyond the limits of Pakistan commits any offence described in 
clause (c), clause (d) or 5[clause (dd)], he may be punished with death. 
 
(2) If any member of the Frontier Corps is charged with committing any offence described in 
clause (a) of sub -section (1), or an offence punishable under the proviso to that sub -section, or the 
offence of murder, he may, notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance or in any other law 
for the time being in force, be summarily tried for such offence by the Political Officer  6[* * *] 
sitting with two other officers appointed by the Political Officer in consulta tion with the Com -
mandant for such purpose. 
 
1 Cl. (dd) ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act 1965 (I of 1965), s. 5. 
2 Sub-Clause (ii) Omitted, ibid. 
3 Subs. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (27 of 1981), s. 3 and Sch. II. 
4 Omitted, ibid.  
5 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 5, for “sub-clause (ii) of clause (e)”. 
6 Omitted by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 3. 
 
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(3) Every officer appointed under sub-section (2) shall be either— 
(a)  a person appointed under section 5, or 
(b)  a person holding a commission in the Pakistan Army; or 
(c)  a civil officer of the Provincial or 1[Federal Government] holding Gazetted 
Class I post:  
 Provided that, if circumstances permit, not le ss than one such officer shall be a person 
appointed under section 5. 
 
 (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, if in a 
trial under sub -section (2) one or both of the officers sitting with the Political Officer concur with 
him in finding the accused person guilty of an offence re ferred to in that sub -section, and if the 
Political Officer considers the case one in which a sentence of death should be passed, he may, in 
passing such sentence, direct that the accuse d person shall be forthwith shot to death, and such 
sentence shall be carried out in accordance with such direction. 
 
 9. Less heinous offences. Every member of the Frontier Corps who— 
 
(a)  is in a state of intoxication when on, or after having been warned for, any duty, 
or on parade or on the line of march; or 
 
(b)  strikes or attempts to force any sentry; or 
 
(c)  being in command of a guard, picquet or patrol, refuses to receive any prisoner 
or person duly com mitted to his charge, or releases without p roper authority 
any prisoner or person placed under his charge, or negligently suffers any such 
prisoner or person to escape; or 
 
(d)  being under arrest or in confinement, leaves his arrest or confinement before 
he is set at liberty by proper authority; or 
 
(e)  is grossly insubordinate or insolent to his superior officer in the execution of 
his office; or 
 
(f)  refuses to superintend or assist in the making of any fieldwork or other work 
of any description ordered to be made either in quarters or in the field; or 
 
(g)  strikes or otherwise ill -uses any member of the Frontier Corps subordinate to 
him in rank or position; or 
 
(h)  being in command at any post or on the march, and receiving a report that any 
one under his command has beaten or otherwise maltr eated or oppressed any 
person or has committed any riot or trespass, fails, on proof of the truth of the 
report, to report the matter to the proper authority; or 
 
(i)  designedly or through neglect injures or l oses or fraudulently disposes , of, his 
arms, c lothes, tools, equipments, ammunition, accoutrement 2[, animals] or 
Frontier Corps necessaries, or any such articles entrusted to him or belonging 
to any other person, or any animals belonging to the Frontier Corps; or 
 
 
1 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2 for “Central Government”. 
2 Ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 6. 
 
 
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(j)  malingers, or feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself, or 
intentionally delays his cure or aggravates his disease or infirmity; or 
 (k)  with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for service, voluntarily 
causes hurt to himself or any other person; or 
 
(l)  does not, when called upon by his superior officer so to do or, upon ceasing to 
be a member of the F rontier Corps forthwith deliver up, or duly account for, 
all or any arms, ammunition, stores, accoutrements or other property issued or 
supplied to him, or in his custody or possession, as a member of the Frontier 
Corps; or 
 
(m)  knowingly furnishes a false return or report of the number or state of any men 
under his command or charge or of any money, arms ammunition, clothing 
equipments, stores or other property in his charge, whether belonging to such 
men or to the Government or to any member of, or any p erson attached to, the 
Frontier Corps, or through design or culpable neglect omits or refuses to make 
or send any return or report of any of the matters aforesaid; or 
 
(n)  absents himself without leave, or without sufficient cause over -stays leave 
granted to him; or 
 
(o)  contravenes any provision of this Ordinance for which no punishment is 
expressly provided; or 
 
(p)  is guilty of any act or omission which, though not specified in this Ordinance, 
is prejudicial to good order and discipline; or 
 
(q)  while not on active service, commits any of the offences described in clause 
(e) of sub-section (1) of section 8, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a 
term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to three 
months pay and allowances ex cluding half mounting and warm clothing 
allowances or with both.   
 10. Summary punishments. —(1) The Inspector General may, subject to any rules made 
under this Ordinance summarily award, in lieu of or in addition to suspension, 1[Compulsory 
retirement,] removal, or dismissal from service, any one or more of the following punishments to any 
member of the Frontier Corps whom he considers to be guilty of disobe dience, neglect of duty or 
remissness in the discharge of any duty, or of rendering himself unfit t o discharge his duty, or of 
other misconduct in his capacity as a member of the Frontier Corps, that is to say:— 
 
(a)  reduction in rank; 
 
(b)  fine to any amount not exceeding one month’s pay and allowances; 
(c)  detention in quarters for a term not exceeding one month; 
 
(d)  rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, with or without 
drill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty; 
 
(e)  removal from any office of distinction or special emolument in the Frontier 
Corps; 
(f)  extra guards and picquets; 
 
1 Ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 4. 
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1[(g)  forfeiture of increment in pay;] 
 
(h)  in the case of Junior Commissioned Officers and non  commissioned officers, 
reprimand or severe reprimand:    
 Provided that the pun ishments specified in clauses (c) and (d) shall not be awarded to Junior 
Commissioned Officers.   
 2[(1A) The Inspector General may delegate, to such extent and in respect of such Frontier 
Corps as he may think fit, the powers conferred upon him by sub -section (1) to the Deputy Inspector 
General.] 
 
 (2) A Commandant may, in respect of members of the Frontier Corps subordinate to him 
exercise the powers conferred on the Inspector General by sub-section (1):  
 
 Provided that a Commandant shall not award imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or, 
in the case of a Junior Commissioned Officer, the punishment of reduction in rank.  
 
 (3) A Commandant may delegate, to such extent as he may think fit, the powers conferred 
upon him by sub-section (2) to any person appointed under section 5 who is under his command. 
  
 11. Place of imprisonment, and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.—(1) Every person 
sentenced under this Ordinance to imprisonment 3* * * may be removed or dismissed from the 
Frontier Corps and shall be further liable by special order of the 4[Federal Government] or the Court, 
to forfeiture of pay and allowances and other public money due to him as well as of any medals and 
decorations received by him.   
 (2) Every person so sentenced to impriso nment shall, if he is so removed or dismissed, be 
imprisoned in the nearest prison or such other prison as the 4[Central Government] may, by general 
or special order, direct, but if he is not so removed or dismissed, he may, if the Court or the 
Commandant so directs, be confined in the quarter guard or such other place as the Court or the 
Commandant may consider suitable. 
 
 12. Deductions from pay and allowances. The following penal deductions may be made 
from the pay and allowances of a member of the Front ier Corps by the Commandant under whom h e 
is serving, that is to say,— 
 
(a)  all pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing allowances 
for every day of absence either on desertion or without leave and for every day 
of imprisonment by a Cr iminal Court or of rigorous imprisonment awarded 
under section 10; 
 
(b)  all pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing allowances 
for every day while he is in custody on a charge for an offence of which he is 
afterwards convicted; 
 
 
 
 
 
1 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 7, for the original clause (g). 
2 Sub-section (1A), ins. ibid. 
3 Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration), 1981 (27 of 1981), s. 3, and Sch. II. 
4 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974, (2 of 1975), s.2., for “Central Government”. 
 
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(c)  all pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing allowances 
for every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness certified by the 
medical officer attending on him at the hospital to have been caused by an 
offence under this Ordinance committed by him; 
 
(d)  good service or good conduct pay ordered to be forfeited under section 10; and 
 
(e)  such sum as may be ordered by the Inspector General or the Commandant in 
 order to make good any expenses caused by the member of the Frontier Corps, 
 or any loss by him of, or damage or destruction done by him to, any arms, 
 ammunition, equipment, clothings, instruments, decorations or necessaries 
 belonging to the Frontier Corps or to any buildings or property, 
 
 13. Collective fines. —Whenever any weapon or part of a weapon or ammu nition forming 
part of the equipment of a company or other similar unit of the Frontier Corps is lost or stolen, the 
Commandant may, after making su ch inquiry as he thinks fit and subject to such rules as may be 
prescribed, impose a collective fine upon the subordinate officers and men of such unit, or upon so 
many of them as in his judgment should be held responsible for such loss or theft. 
 
 14. Res ignation and withdrawal from the Frontier Crops.  No member of the Frontie r 
Corps shall be at liberty to— 
 
(a)  resign his appointment during the term of engagement,  
 
(b)  withdraw himself from all or any of the duties of his appointment, without the 
sanction of the Commandant under whom he is serving or of some other 
officer authorized by the Commandant to grant such sanction. 
 
 15. General duties of members of the Frontier Crops. —(1) It shall be the duty of every 
member of the Frontier Corps promptly to o bey and to execute all orders and warrants lawfully 
issued to him by any competent authority, to detect and bring offenders to justice, and to apprehend 
all persons whom he is legally authorized to apprehend and for whose apprehension sufficient 
grounds exist. 
 
 (2) Every member of the Frontier Corps shall be liable to serve anywhere without and 
beyond, as well as within, the land frontiers of Pakistan. 
 
 16. Protection of persons serving in the Frontier Crops. —(1) In any suit or proceeding 
against any person appointed under section 5 or any member of the Frontier Corps for any act done 
by him in pursuance of a warrant or order of a competent authority, it shall be lawful for him to plead 
that such act was done by him under the authority of such warrant or order. 
 
 (2) Such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and 
if it is so proved, the defendant shall thereupon be discharged from liability in respect of the act so 
done by him, notwithstanding any defect in the ju risdiction of the authority which issued the warrant 
or order. 
 
 (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, all suits 
and proceedings (whether civil or criminal) against any person which may lawfully be brought for  
anything done or intended to be done under the powers conferred by, or in pursuance of, any 
provision of this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder, shall be commenced within three months 
after the act complained of was committed, and not otherwise, and notice in writing of such suit or 
proceeding and of the cause thereof shall be give to the defendant or his superior officer one month 
at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding. 
 
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 17. Jurisdiction. —(1) Notwithstanding anything contained i n the Code of Criminal 
Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), the 1[Federal Government] may declare that any Court specified 
for the purpose and no other shall be deemed to be the Court of Session or the Court of a Magistrate 
for the disposal of cases or any cla ss of cases arising under  this Ordinance and that appeals from 
sentences passed under this Ordinance or from any class of such sentences shall lie to any authority 
specified by the 1[Federal Government] and no other. 
 
(2) Any person invested with any powers under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V 
of 1898), for the disposal of any case under this Ordinance within the limits of Pakistan shall, in 
relation to any case arising under this Ordinance beyond such limits, have the same power and be 
subject to the same conditions as to appeal and other matters as if such case had arisen within such 
limits. 
 
18. Commencement and execution of sentence. —(1) Whenever any person is sentenced 
under this Ordi nance to 2[imprisonment for life], rigorous imprisonment  or detention, the term of 
sentence shall, whether it has been revised or not, be reckoned to commence on the day on which the 
original proceedings were signed by the Court. 
 
(2) Whenever any sentence of 2[imprisonment for life] or rigorous imprisonment is  passed 
under this Ordinance, or whenever any sentence of death so passed is commuted to 2[imprisonment 
for life] or to rigorous imprisonment, the Commandant of the corps to which the person under 
sentence belongs, or such other officer as may be specified  by the Inspector General shall forward a 
warrant in the prescribed form to the officer in charge of the civil prison in which such person is to 
be confined and shall forward him to such prison with the warrant: 
 
Provided that in the case of a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for a period not exceeding 
one month, the Court, may direct that the sentence shall be carried out in the Frontier Corps custody: 
 
 Provided further that, on active service, a sentence of rigorous imprisonment may be carried 
out by c onfinement in such place as the Commandant of the corps in the field, may, from time to 
time appoint. 
 
 (3) Whenever, in the opinion of the Inspector General, any sentence or portion of a sentence 
of imprisonment cannot, for special reasons, be convenientl y carried out in accordance with the 
aforementioned provision, the Inspector General, may direct that such sentence or portion of 
sentence shall be carried out by confinement in any civil prison or other fit place. 
 
19. Execution of sentence of detention.—Where a sentence of detention is passed under this 
Ordinance the person on whom that sentence has been passed shall undergo the term of his detention 
either in a detention barrack specified by the Inspector General for the purpose, or in the Frontier 
Corps custody, or partly in one and partly in the other but not in a prison. 
 
20. [Interim Custody of offenders sentenced to transportation.] — Omitted by the Frontier 
Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 6. 
 
 21. Conveyance of prisoners from place to p lace.—A person under sentence of 
3[imprisonment for life], rigorous imprisonment or detention may, during his conveyance from place 
to place, be subjected to such restraint as is necessary for his safe conduct and removal.   
 22. Communication of certain orders to civil prison officers.— Whenever an order is duly 
made under this Ordinance setting aside or varying any sentence, order or warrant under which any 
person is confined in a civil prison, a warrant in accordance with such order shall be forwarded by  
the court or the officer, appointed for the purpose by the Inspector General, to the officer in charge of 
the prison in which the person is confined. 
 
1 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2, for “Central Government”. 
2 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 5, for “Transportation”. 
3 Subs., ibid, s.7. 
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 23. Custody of offenders. — (1) Any person subject to this Ordinance who is charged with 
any offence may be taken into Frontier Corps custody by any Ju nior Commissioned Officer or non -
commissioned officer senior in rank to the person charged with any offence: 
 
Provided that in the case offences of mutiny or murder, the offender may also be arrested by 
any person junior to him in rank. 
 
(2) Every Commandant shall take care that a person under his command when charged with 
an offence is not detained in custody for more than forty -eight hours after the committal of such 
person into custody is reported to him, without the charge being investigated, unless inv estigation 
within that period seems to him to be impracticable having due regard to the public service and every 
case of a person detained in custody beyond a period of forty -eight hours and the reason therefore 
shall be reported by the Commandant to the p rescribed authority while making an application for the 
trial of the person charged: 
 
Provided that in reckoning the period of forty -eight hours all public holidays shall be 
excluded. 
 
(3) In every case where any such person as is mentioned in sub-section (1) remains in custody 
for a period exceeding eight days, without the orders of his trial, a special report giving reason for the 
delay shall be made by the Commandant concerned to the Inspector General. 
 
24. Capture of deserters. —(1) Whenever any person subject to this Ordinance deserts, his 
Commandant shall give written information of the desertion to such civil authorities as in his opinion 
may be able to afford assistance towards the capture of the deserter and such authorities shall 
thereupon take steps for the apprehension of the said deserter in like manner as if he were a person 
for whose apprehension a warrant had been issued by a magistrate, and shall deliver the deserter, 
when apprehended, to Frontier Corps custody. 
 
(2) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person whom he reasonably believes to 
be subject to this Ordinance and a deserter or absentee without leave and bring him without delay 
before the nearest magistrate, as if he were a deserter from the Pakistan Army. 
 
25. Saving.— No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie for anything which is in 
good faith done or intended to be done under this Ordinance or any rules made thereunder. 
 
 26. Power to make rules. —The 1[Federal Government] may, by notification in the official 
Gazette, make rules2— 
 
(a)  regulating the functions and powers of persons appointed under section 5; 
 
(b)  regulating the classes and grades of, and the remu neration to be paid to, 
members of the Frontier Corps and their conditions of service; 
 
(c)  fixing the period of service for members of the Frontier Corps in any local 
areas; 
 
(d)  regulating the award of summary punishments under section 10, and providing 
for appeals from or the revision of, orders under that section, and for the 
remission of fines imposed under that section and of deductions made under 
section 12; 
 
(e)  regulating the several or collective liability of members of the Frontier Corps 
in the case of the loss or theft of weapons or ammunitions; and 
 
1 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2, for “Central Government”. 
2 For the Frontier Corps Rules, 1961, see Gaz. of P., 1961, Pt. I, pp. 228—232. 
 
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(f)  generally, for the purpose of carrying into effect the 1[provisions] of this 
Ordinance. 
 
27. [Repeal.]— Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 
(27 of 1981), s. 3 and II Sch. 
______ 
 
2[FIRST SCHEDULE 
(See section 3) 
 
Frontier Corps forces maintained by the Federal Government— 
 
A. Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier Province—   
(1) The Headquarters, Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier Province; 
 
(2)  The Chitral Scouts; 
 
(3)  The Khyber Rifles; 
 
(4)  The Khurram Militia; 
 
(5)  The Thall Scouts; 
 
(6)  The Tochi Scouts; 
 
(7)  The South Waziristan Scouts; 
 
(8)  The Dir Scouts; 
 
(9)  The Mohmand Rifles; 
 
(10)  The Mahsud Scouts ; 
 
(11)  The Bajaur Scouts; 
 
(12)  The Shawal Rifles ; 
 
(13)  Training Centre; and 
 
(14)  The Kohistan Scouts; 
 
B. Frontier Corps, Baluchistan—  
 
(1) The Headquarters, Frontier Corps, Baluchistan; 
 
(2) The Zhob Militia; 
 
(3) The Pishin Scouts; 
 
 
1 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965 ), s. 8, for “purposes”. 
2 Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 8 for the first Schedule which was previously amended by Act, 1 of 19 65 and 
Ordinance, 35 of 1965, to read as above. 
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(4) The Chagai Militia; 
 
(5) The Mekran Scouts; 
 
(6) The Kalat Scouts; 
 
(7) The Sibi Scouts; 
 
(8) The Maiwand Rifles; 
 
(9) Training Center; 
 
(10) The Bhambore Rifles; 
 
(11) The Ghazaband Scouts; 
 
(12)  The Kharan Rifles and 
 
(13)  The Loralai Scouts.]  
 
 
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SECOND SCHEDULE 
[See section 6(2)] 
(Recruiting roll) 
 
After you have served in the Frontier Corps for such period as has been fixed under the 
Frontier Corps Ordinance, 1959, you may at any time when not on ac tive service, apply for your 
discharge, through the officer to whom you may be subordinate to the Commandant, and you will be 
granted your discharge after three months from the date of your application, unless your discharge 
would cause the vacancies in th at unit of the Frontier Corps to exceed one -tenth of the sanctioned 
strength, in which case you shall be bound to remain until this objection is waived or removed. But 
when on active service, you shall have no claim to a discharge, and you shall be bound t o remain to 
do your duty until the necessity for retaining you in the Frontier Corps ceases, when you may make 
your application in the manner mentioned above. 
 
Signed in acknowledgement of the above having been read out to me. I have understood the 
purport of what has been read out. 
 
Person enrolled 
 
 Date………… 
 
Signed in my presence after I had ascertained that the recruit understood the purport of what 
he signed. 
 
Commandant or other enrolling officer.  
 
Date………….  
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THIRD SCHEDULE 
FORM OF AFFIRMATION 
[See section 6(2)] 
 
I, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . solemnly affirm in the pre sence of Almighty God that I 
will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Government of Pakistan and that I will, as in duty 
bound, honestly and faithf ully serve in the Pakistan Frontier Corps and go within the terms of my 
enrolment wherever I may be ordered by air, land or sea, and that I will observe and obey all 
commands of any officer set over me even to the peril of my life. 
 
Signed in acknowledgement of the above 
  having been read out to me. 
 I subscribed to it. 
      …………………… 
Signed in my presence after I had  
  ascertained that the person  
  understood the purport of  
  what he signed. 
       …………………. 
 
Roman Urdu Translation of Affirmation 
 
Main . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Khuda -i-Taala ko Hazir-o-nazir jankar iman se iqrar karta hun kh 
main Pakistan ki Hukumat k a sache dil se wafadar rahunga a ur Pakist an Frontier Corps men 
imandari a ur wafadari se khidmat ka farz baja launga. Bharti hone ki  sharait ke mutabiq hawa, 
khushki ya tari ke raste jahan bhi jane ka hukam melega jaounga our jise mera afsar muqarrar kia 
jaega, uske sab hukam ki tamil our pairwi karunga, khah us men jan ka khatra ho. 
 
Roman Pushto Translation of Affirmation 
 
Zeh …………………………Pak Khudai Taala hazir au nazir ganran, au laiman sara iqrar kawam 
the zo ba da Pakistan da Hukumat pa wafadari au da khpul zrah sidq zara ba da Pakistan Frontier 
Corps khidmat kawam, au laka the ma bande farz wi so ba da zrah sadiq sara da bhartai da shartunu 
pa mutdbiq, da darya khushki ya da hawa pa liyare har charta the ma to hukam wushi ba zam au 
harsok the pa ma bande afsar muqarrar wi da hagba tolo bukmuno ba tamil au pairwi kawam ka pa 
de ke da zan khatra, ham wi. 
 
1[Roman Baluchi Translation of Affirmation, 
 
 Man……………………. Khuda -i-Tala-Ha-Hazir-o-Nazir Zanta Imana Goon Quol Khna 
ghan ke man Pakistan ae Hukumata Goon sidiq -e-Dila wafadare beyan Pakistan Frontier Corps -e-
Taha Imandari-o-Wafadari Khidmat-o-Farzha ada Kanen, Bharti Bayage sooratht Ha wa, Hushki ya 
Daryae-o-Zirri Raha Goon Key har Handia ke Rawagae Hukum Beraseeot -Rawaan-o-Har kesey dey 
mani Afsar Muqarrar kanag bibeet aanhiencae har Hukama manna Tonrhein key anhienha ma saaye 
Kahtra bibeet.].  
 
 
 
 
 
 
1 Added by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 9.