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TH
E 
[
PAKISTAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY
]
 
ACT
 
 
      
    
  
CONTENTS
 
1. 
 
Short title and extent
 
2.
 
Constitution of 
[
Pakistan Red Crescent Society
]
 
3. 
 
Appointment of Managing Body
 
4. 
 
Incorporation
 
5. 
 
Power to make rules
 
6. 
 
Dissolution and transfer of property of Joint War Committee
 
7. 
 
Purposes to which funds of Society may be applied
 
8. 
 
Constitution of Branch Committees
 
9. 
 
Affiliation of other Societies
 
10. 
 
Decision of Managing Body as to purposes final
 
11. 
 
Receipt and 
use of gifts
 
12. 
 
Powers of Branch Committees
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
FIRST SCHEDULE
 
SECOND SCHEDULE
 
 

 
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THE 
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[PAKISTAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY] ACT
 
ACT NO. XV OF 1920
 
[20th March, 1920]
 
An Act to constitute 
2
[a 
1
[Pakistan] Red Crescent Society]
 
3
[WHEREAS it is 
expedient to provide for the future administration of the various monies and 
gifts received from the public for the purposes of medical and other aid to the sick and wounded and 
other purposes of a like nature, and more especially for the administration of
 
the monies and properties 
which maybe allotted to Pakistan out of the assets of the Indian Red Cross Society.]
 
 
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to constitute a 
1
[Pakistan Red Crescent Society] with a view 
to the continuation of the work carried on by the Indi
an Red Cross Society and to provide for the 
affiliation therewith of the other societies and bodies having similar objects and of the Provincial 
Branches of the Indian Red Cross Society falling in 
4
* * * Pakistan; It is hereby enact
ed as follows :
 
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]
 
1. 
 
Short title and extent
.
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(1) This Act may be called the 
5
[Pakistan 
1
[Red Crescent] Society 
Act], 
6
[Repealed]
.
 
3
[(2) It extends to all the territories of Pakistan]
.
 
3
[2.
 
Constitution of 
1
[Pakistan Red Crescent Society]
. There shall be constituted a Society 
to be known as 
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[the] 
1
[Pakistan]
Red Crescent Society
 
(hereafter called the society).
 
The first members of the Society shall be such persons as were members of the Indian Red 
Cross Society immediately before the appoi
nted day and are resident in Pakistan.]
 
3
[3. Appointment of Managing Body
.
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(i) Until such time as a Managing Body of the Society 
is e
lected under the provisions of 
s
ub
-
section (iv)
 
the Managing Body shall consist of (
a
) such persons 
as were 
members of the Managing Body of the Indian Red Cross Society immediately before the 
appointed day and are resident in Pakistan ; and (
b
) such other persons not exceeding 30 in number as 
may be nominated by the 
4
[President of Pakistan.]
 
 
 
 
 
1
Subs. by 
Act 
No. XIV of 1974, ss. 2, 3, 4 and 5.
 
This Act later 
on 
repealed by 
Ordinance No. XXVII of 1981
 
s
.2, Schedule I
.
 
2
Subs. by the Federal Laws
 
(Revision and Declaration) Act 
No.
 
XXVI 
of 1951
, s. 4 and Sch. III
.
 
 
3
Subs. by 
Order 
No. 
G.G.O. 
V
 
of 1947
, dated 
the 20th December, 1947.
 
 
4
O
mitted 
and subs. 
by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch. (
w. e. f. 
 
the 23rd March, 1956
). 
 
5
Subs. by A.O., 1949
.
 
 
6
Rep
. by the Federal Laws
 
(Revision and Declaration) Act 
No. XXVI of
 
1951
, s. 3 and Sch. II. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[(ii) 
 
The President of Pakistan shall be the President of the Society.] 
 
(iii) 
 
The 
1
[President of Pakistan] may nominate as office
,
 
bearers of the first 
Managing Body such persons as he may select for the purpose. 
 
(iv) 
 
Before the expiry of 6 months from the d
ate of constitution of the first Managing 
Body a new Managing Body shall be elected by the members of the Society in 
accordance with the rules made under 
S
ection 5. Until such rules are made, the 
rules made by the Indian Red Cross Society shall be followed
 
with such 
adaptations as may be necessary.]
 
4. Incorporation
. The first members of the Society an
d all persons who may hereafter
 
become 
members thereof so long as they continue so to be, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the 
name of the 
2
[Pakistan] [Red Crescent Society], and the said body shall have perpetual succession and 
a common seal with power to hold and acquire 
property, moveable and immoveable and shall sue and 
be sued by the said name.
 
5. Power to make rules
. 
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[The Managing Body shall within 6 months of its constitution ma
ke
 
rules for the management, control and procedure of the Society.] The rules may provide 
am
ong other
 
matters
 
for 
the following namely
 
:
—
 
(a) 
 
the conditions of membership of the Society
 
; 
 
(b) 
 
the appointment and term of office of members of the Managing Body
 
; 
 
(c) 
 
the choice of representatives of international and other 
Committees
 
; 
 
(d) 
 
representation on the Managing Body of Provincial and State Branch 
Committees and affiliated societies and bodies
 
; 
 
(e) 
 
the constitution of Finance, Medical and other Committees and the delegation 
of powers to them
 
; and 
 
(f) 
 
the regu
lation of the procedure generally of the Society and Managing Body.
 
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[6. Dissolution and transfer of property of Joint War Committee
. The following property 
shall vest in the Society
 
:
 
(a) 
 
All property moveable or immoveable which may be allotted to 
the Society out 
of the assets held immediately before the appointed day by the Indian Red Cross 
Society
 
; and 
 
(
b) 
 
All gifts made to the Society for purposes which are purposes of the Society.]
 
 
 
1
Subs.
 
by
 
A.O.,
 
1961 
(
w. e. f. 
 
the 23rd March, 1956
). 
 
2
Subs. 
by 
Act No. XIV of
 
1974, s.6, 
repealed by Ordinance No. XXVII of 1981,
 
s
.2, Schedule I.
 
3
Subs. by G.G.O. 
V
 
of 1947
. 
 
 
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7. Purposes to which funds of Society may be applied
. Notwithstanding anything contained 
in any appeal 
for subscriptions or gifts to or for the purposes of the Committee, the Managing B
ody 
may in its discretion apply
—
 
(a) 
 
either the corpus of the income or any part of such corpus or income of any 
property vested in it under 
1
[
c
lause (a) of 
s
ection 6] for the relief of sickness, 
suffering or distress caused by the operation of war in 
1
[Pakistan] or in any other 
country in which Expeditionary Forces from 
1
[Pakistan] may, from time to time, 
be employed and for purposes cognate to that object and
 
in maintaining 
2
[Red 
Crescent Depots] for military purposes
 
; 
 
(b) 
 
in accordance with the provisions of section 8 the income only of any such 
property but not the corpus or any part thereof for the relief of sickness or 
suffering in Pakistan, 
whether
 
due
 
to the operation of war or not, or in pursuance 
of any of the objects set forth in the First Schedule.
 
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[8. Constitution of Branch Committees
.
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(1) All Branch Committees of the Indian Red 
Cross Society which immediately befo
re the appointed day had thei
r h
eadquarters at any place which 
has thereafter been included in 
3
* * *Pakistan, shall be deemed to have been constituted under this Act, 
and all property vested in them before the coming into force of the Pakistan Red Cross Society Order, 
1947
,
 
shall continue to be so vested :
 
4
[Repealed]
 
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[(1A) There shall be a Branch Committee for the Capital of the Federation which shall consist 
of such persons, one of whom shall be the Chairman, as the President may appoint.
 
(1B) There shall be a 
Branch Committee for each of the Provinces of Baluchistan, the North
-
West Frontier, Sind and the Punjab (excluding the Islamabad Capital Territory) constituted in 
accordance with the provisions of sub
-
section (1D)
,
 
and all property vested in the Branch Com
mittee 
for the Province of West Pakistan functioning immediately before the commencement of the Pakistan 
Red Cross Society (Amendment) Act, 1972, shall, upon the constitution of the Branch Committee for 
each such Province, vest in that Committee in such ma
nner, and to such extent, as may be determined 
by the President.
 
(1C) All property vested in the Branch Committee for the Karachi Division functioning 
immediately before the commencement of the Pakistan Red Cross Society (Amendment) Act, 1972, 
shall vest i
n the Branch Committee constituted under sub
-
section (1B) for the Province of Sind. 
 
(1D) The first Branch Committee for each of the 
provinces
 
referred to in sub
-
section (1B) shall 
consist of such persons, not exceeding ten in number, one of whom shall be 
the Chairman, as may be 
appointed by the Governor of the Province concerned. 
 
 
 
 
1
Subs. by 
Order 
No. 
G.G.O. 
V
 
of 1947, dated the 20th December, 1947.
 
 
2
Subs. by 
Act No. XIV of 1974, s.7
, 
rep
ealed by Ordinance No. XXVII of
 
1981
,
 
s.2, Schedule I.
 
3
O
mitted by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch.
 
(
w. e. f. 
 
the 23rd March,1956
). 
 
4
R
ep. by the Federal Laws 
(Revision and Declaration) Act 
No. 
XXVI
 
of 1951
, s. 3 and Sch. II. 
 
5
Subs. by
 
Act No. XXVI of 1972, s.2, 
repealed by Ordinance No. 
XXVII of 1981,
 
s
.2, Schedule I.
 
 
 
 
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(lE) Regulations shall be made in pursuance of section 12 by the first Committee for each of 
the 
P
rovinces
 
referred to in sub
-
section (1B) and, until regulations are so made, the procedure provided 
for the Branch Committee for the Province of West Pakistan functioning immediately before the 
commencement of the Pakistan Red Cross Society (Amendment) Act, 1972, 
shall be followed with 
such adaptations as may be necessary.
]
 
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(4) Subject to the requirements of the Managing Body for the purposes of clause (a) of section 
7 and any provision for expenses of management, the income of any property which vests in the Society 
under the provisions of clause (a) of section 6 shall be di
stributed annually among the Branch 
Committees according to the percentages specified in the Second Schedule, to be expended by them 
and at their discretion upon all or any of the objects referred to in clause (b) of section 7. 
 
(5) The 
2
[President of Paki
stan] may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that any 
Branch Committee specified in the Second Schedule shall be excluded therefrom or that any newly 
constituted Branch Committee not specified therein shall be included therein, and that the p
ercentages 
specified in that Schedule shall be varied as required by any such exclusion or inclusion. 
 
(6) On the issue of a notification under sub
-
section (5) the Second Schedule shall be deemed 
to be 
amended in accordance with such
_
notification. 
 
(7) No 
notification under sub
-
section (5) shall be made without the consent of every Branch 
Committee which is for the time being included in the Second Schedule.]
 
9. Affiliation of other Societies
. The Managing Body may also affiliate to the Society any 
other so
ciety or body having all or any of the objects and purposes referred to in section 7, and may 
provide for the allocation and distribution of funds, through such society or body, to or for any such 
objects or purposes. 
 
10. Decision of Managing Body as to p
urposes final
. The Managing Body shall have 
authority to determine in all cases what matters properly fall within the scope of clause (b) of section 
7, and its decision in all such matters shall be binding on all Branch Committees and affiliated societies 
or bodies.
 
11. Receipt and use of gifts
. The Managing Body may also receive and hold gifts of 
whatsoever description either for the general purposes of the Society or for any particular purpose for 
which the corpus or income of the property vested in it un
der clause (b) of section 6 may be applied 
under the provisions of section 7, and on receipt of such gifts may, subject to the provisions of rules 
made under section 5, apply the same to such purposes, either directly or through Branch Committees, 
or socie
ties or bodies affiliated under section 9.
 
12. Powers of Branch Committees
. Subject to the provisions of rules made under section 5, 
each Branch Committee shall have all power to regulate its own procedure and constitution, to receive 
gifts and expend all 
monies received by it for its purposes, either directly or through other societies or 
bodies.
 
 
1
O
mitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and
 
Declaration) Ordinance 
No.
 
XXVII
 
of 1981
, s. 3 and Sch. II. 
 
2
Subs. by A
.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch., 
(
w. e. f. 
 
the 23rd March, 1956
).
 
 
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[Provided that ten per cent. of all cash donations received by any Branch Committee for any 
of the general objects set out in the First Schedule shall be placed at the disposal of the Managing 
Body 
to be applied by it for the general purposes of the Society.]
 
FIRST SCHEDULE
 
(
See
 
s
ection 7)
 
Objects to which the funds of the Society may be applied
 
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[(1) The care of the sick and wounded who are or were members of the Pakistan Forces.] 
 
(2) The care of those suffering from tuberculosis, having regard in the first place to soldiers 
and sailors, whether they have contracted the disease on active service 
or not. 
 
(3) Child welfare. 
 
(4) Work parties to provide the necessary garments, etc., for hospitals and health institutions in 
need of them. 
 
(5) Assistance required in all branches of nursing health and welfare work, ancillary to any 
organizations which 
have or may come into being in 
3
[Pakistan] and which are recognised by the 
Society. 
 
(6) Home Service Ambulance Work. 
 
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[(7) Provision of comforts and assistance to persons who are or were members of the Pakistan 
Forces.] 
 
(8) Such other cognate objects as may, from time to time be approved by the Society.
 
(9) The expenses of management of the Society and its branches and a
ffiliated societies and 
bodies. 
 
(10) The representation of the Society on or at international or other Committees formed for 
furthering objects similar to those of the Society.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
Added by Act No. XVIII of 1953, s.3.
 
 
2
Subs. by the 
Federal Laws (Revision and
 
Declaration) Ordinance 
No. 
XXVII
 
of 1981
, s. 3 and Sch., II.
 
 
3
Subs. by G.G.O. 
V
 
of 1947.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[SECOND SCHEDULE
 
 
(See section 8)
 
 
Name of Branch Committee
 
Approximate percentage of claim
.
 
 
        
1.
  
2
[
Karachi Division
]
 
                  
2
 
     
2.  
West Pakistan
 
               
55.46
 
     
3.  
East Pakistan 
 
              
42.54
]
 
 
 
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Date: 16
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09
-
2024
 
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1
Subs. by Act No. XIII of 1957, S. 
3.
 
2
Subs. by the Central
 
Adaptation of Laws Order 
P.O. No. 1 of 1964; 
This Act later 
on repealed by Ordinance No. XXVII of 1981, 
S.2, Schedule I.