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  "text": "Page 1 of 2 \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nTHE STANDARD TIME (INTERPRETATION OF REFERENCES) \r\nORDINANCE, 1943 \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1.  Short title and commencement \r\n2.  Interpretation of references to Standard Time\r\n\r\n \r\nPage 2 of 2 \r\n \r\nTHE STANDARD TIME (INTERPRETATION OF REFERENCES) \r\nORDINANCE, 1943 \r\n1ORDINANCE No. VI OF 1943 \r\n[20th January, 1943] \r\nAn Ordinance to provide for the interpretation in enactments in force in 2[Pakistan] of  \r\nreferences to 3* Standard Time. \r\n WHEREAS an emergency has arisen which makes it necessary to provide for the \r\ninterpretation in enactments in force in 2[Pakistan] of references to 3* Standard Time; \r\n Now, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 72 of the Government of \r\nIndia Act, as set out in the Ninth Schedule to the Government of India Act, 1935 (26 Geo. 5,c.2.) , \r\nthe Governor General is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance: ⎯ \r\n 1. Short title and commencement.⎯(1) This Ordinance may be called the 3* Standard Time \r\n(Interpretation of References) Ordinance, 1943. \r\n (2) It shall come into force at once. \r\n 2. Interpretation of references to Standard Time.⎯While any order of the 4[Federal \r\nGovernment] is in force fixing 3* Standard Time by reference to Greenwich Mean Time as being in  \r\nadvance of Greenwich Mean Time by an interval other than five and one­half hours, any reference in \r\nany enactment in force in 2[Pakistan] to 3*Standard Time shall, notwithstanding that such reference \r\nmay define 3*Standard Time as being five and one­half hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time, \r\nbe interpreted as a reference to 3*Standard Time as fixed for the time being by the order of the \r\n4[Federal Government]. \r\n \r\n \r\n______________ \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n                              Dated.28.04.2025 \r\n \r\n_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \r\n1The Ordinance has been applied to⎯ \r\n (i)  Baluchistan, see Notification No. 18-W., dated the 8th February, 1943, Gazette of India, 1943, Pt. I. p. 192; \r\n \r\n(ii) Such of the Baluch tribal areas beyond the western boarder of the Dera  Ghazi Khan District of the Punjab as are not included in the Baluchistan \r\ntribal areas, in so far as the same may be applicable and subject to any amendments to which it is for the time being subject  in the Provinces, etc., \r\nsee Notification No. 27-W., dated the 3rd March, 1943, Gazette of India, 1943, Pt. I, p. 266. \r\n \r\n             It has been extended to the Leased Areas of Baluchsitan by the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950 (G. G. O. 3 of 1950). \r\n \r\n             This Ordinance has been extended to the whole of Pakistan with effect from the 14th October, 1955, by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, \r\n1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch.  \r\n \r\n2Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (Ordinance  No. XXI of 1960), s.3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, \r\n1955). \r\n3Rep. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1951 (Act No. XXVI of 1951), s .3 and 2nd Sch.  \r\n4Subs. by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (President’s Order No. 4 of 1975), Art. 2 and Table.",
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