Pakistan Insurance Corporation (Re-Organization) Ordinance, 2000

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THE PAKISTAN INSURANCE CORPORATION                            
(RE-ORGANIZATION) ORDINANCE, 2000 
 
 
CONTENTS 
1.  Short title, extent and commencement 
2.  Definitions 
3.  Vesting of the rights, property and liabilities of the Corporation in the Company 
4.  Terms and conditions of service of employees 
5.  Registration Fees 
6.  Removal of difficulties 
7.  Repeal 
  
 

 
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THE PAKISTAN INSURANCE CORPORATION (RE-ORGANIZATION) 
ORDINANCE, 2000 
ORDINANCE No. XXXVI of 2000 
[11th August, 2000] 
An Ordinance to provide for conversion of the Pakistan Insurance Corporation into Pakistan 
Reinsurance Company Limited 
 WHEREAS, it is expedient to provide for conversion of the Pakistan Insurance Corporation  
into a public limited company for incorporation under the Companies Ordinance, 1984. (XLVII of 
1984). 
 AND WHEREAS the National Assembly and the Senate stand suspended in pursuance of the 
Proclamation of emergency of the fourteenth day of October, 1999, a nd the Provisional Constitution 
Order No. 1 of 1999; 
 AND WHEREAS the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary 
to take immediate action; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamation of Emergency of the fourteenth day of 
October, 1999, and Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 of 1999, 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, extent and commence ment.___ (1) This Ordinance may be called the Pakistan 
Insurance Corporation (Re-Organization) Ordinance, 2000.  
 (2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan. 
 (3) It shall come into force at once. 
 2. Definitions.___ (1) In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or 
context,— 
(a) “Company” means the Pakistan Reinsurance Company Limited incorporated 
under the Companies Ordinance, 1984; (XLVII of 1984) 
(b) “Corporation” means the Pakistan Insurance Corporation established under the 
Pakistan Insurance Corporation Act, 1952; (XXXVIII of 1952) 
(c) “effective date” means the date on which property, rights and liabilities of the 
Corporation are vested in the Company under section 3; and 
(d) “shareholder” means a person holding shares in the Corporation immediately 
before the effective date. 
 
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 3. Vesting of the rights, property and liabilities of the Corporation in the Company.___ (1) 
As soon as may be after the commencement of this Ordinance the Federal Government may, by order, 
published in the official Gazette, direct that as and from such date, as may be specified in the order by 
the Federal Government, all or any property, rights and liabilities to which the Corporation was entitled 
or subject, immediately before such orders, and identified therein, shall, on such terms and conditions 
as the Federal Government may determine, vest in the Company and become the property, rights and 
liabilities of the Company. 
 (2) An order issued under sub-section (1) shall—  
(a)    provide for all such matters consequential and incidental to the matters provided 
for in sub -section (1) as the Federal Government may consider necessary or 
expedient; and 
(b)    specify the employees of the Corporation who shall, as from the effective date, 
be transferred to, and become employees of, the Company referred to in the 
order: 
 Provided that such order shall not vary the terms and conditions of service of such employees 
to their disadvantage. 
 (3) An order issued under sub-section (1) in favor of the Company shall also provide for— 
(a)   the continuation by the Company of the operations and undertaking of the 
Corporation on the same basis as were carried on immediately prior to the date 
of the order; 
(b)   the dissolution of the Corporation from the effective date; 
(c)   the applicability and extent of the regulations made under the Pakistan Insurance 
Corporation Act, 1952 (XXXVIII of 1952) to the Company from the effective 
date; and 
(d)   the requirement or otherwise of registration of the Company under the Insurance 
Ordinance, 2000, or any other law for the time being in force relating to 
registration of insurance companies in Pakistan. 
 (4) In Consideration of the vesting in the Company of the Propert y of the Corporation, the 
Company Shall issue fully Paid result in each shareholder having the same Proportionate voting rights 
in the Company as he enjoyed in the Corporation immediately before the effective date: 
 Provided that at the option of a shareholder exercised in writing to the Federal Government not 
later than thirty days from the effective date, the Federal Government shall pay the shareholder an 
amount equal to the principal of the shares in the Corporation held by that shareholder, and in such  a 
case the shares in the Corporation shall be surrendered to the Federal Government and the shares in 
the Company which would, but for the operation of this proviso, have been issued to that shareholder 
shall instead be issued in the name of the President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 
 (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law in force, or the listing rules of any 
stock exchange upon which the shares in the Corporation are listed or traded, shares in the Corporation 
 
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shall, as from a date o ne hundred and twenty days after the effective date, cease to be listed on any 
stock exchange in Pakistan and immediately after the close of trading on that day, shares in the 
company shall, without any further action, be listed on any stock exchange in Pa kistan on which the 
shares of the Corporation were listed immediately before that date. 
 (6) If any property of the Corporation vests in the Company subject to any charge, burden, 
hypothecation or encumbrance, the same shall be deemed to be on the assets o f the Company and the 
provisions of section 121 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984, (XLVII of 1984) shall apply to such 
charge, burden, hypothecation or encumbrance as if it had been created on the assets of the Company 
on the effective date and so that the publication of the order in the official gazette shall take effect in 
the same manner in all respect as a certificate of registration under section 130 of the said Ordinance. 
 (7) No stamp duty shall be payable under any law for the time being in force on or in relation 
to the transfer or vesting of property of the Corporation under any order issued under sub section (1), 
or on any shares or securities or the certificates or scrips evidencing title thereto issued to the President 
of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan or any shareholder. 
 (8) All contracts, bonds, agreements, powers of attorney, grants of legal representation and all 
other instruments of whatever kind in each case subsisting or having effect immediately before the 
effective date and owed or incurred by the Corporation or to, which the Corporation may have been a 
party all of which being exclusively in relation to, connected with, the Corporation as to be reasonably 
construed and considered as obligations or liabilities of the Corporation so that the same shall remain 
in full force and effect against the Company as they were before the effective date against the 
Corporation and may be acted upon as fully and effectively as if instead of the Corporation, the 
Company had been a party thereto. 
 (9) All suits, appeals or other legal proceedings of whatever nature by, against or relating to 
the Corporation which shall be pending on the effective date in any court, tribunal or other authority 
shall be continued, prosecuted and enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as they would 
have been continued, prosecuted and enforced by, or against, the Corporation, if this Ordinance would 
not have been promulgated, by or against the Company, and the same shall not abate, be discontinued 
or be in any way prejudiced or affected by the provisions of this Ordinance. 
 Explanation.—For the purpose of this section— 
(a)   the expression “property” includes assets, rights and  entitlements of every 
description and nature wherever situated; and 
(b)   the expression “liabilities” includes duties, obligations, loans, encumbrances, 
claims and charges of every description and nature, actual or contingent, and all 
matters pertaining to continuation or run-off in respect of reinsurance contracts 
and arrangements, whether or not they are capable under any law of Pakistan or 
of any other State or under any arrangement or otherwise, of being vested, 
transferred or assigned by the Corporation. 
 4. Terms and conditions of service of employees .___ (1) No person tra nsferred to the 
Company pursuant to sub -section (2) hereinafter referred to as a “Transferred Employee ”, shall be 
entitled to any compensation as a consequence of transfer to the Company:  
 
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 Provided that the Federal Government shall guarantee the existing terms and conditions of 
service and rights including pensioner benefits of the Transferred Employees to which they were 
entitled on the date of their transfer to the Company. 
 (2) The terms and conditions of service of any Transferred Employee shall not be  altered 
adversely by the Company except in accordance with the laws of Pakistan or with the consent of the 
Transferred Employees and the award of appropriate compensation. 
 (3) Under the order vesting property of the Corporation in the Company, the Feder al 
Government shall require the Company to assume the responsibility of pension benefits of relevant 
employees and the Company shall not alter such pension benefits without the consent of the employees 
concerned and the award of appropriate compensation. 
 5. Registration Fees .___ The Pakistan Reinsurance Company Limited being a successor 
company to a continuing Corporation shall be exempted from any registration fees of any Registration 
Authority or Commission by whatever name. 
 6. Removal of difficulties .___ If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this 
Ordinance, the Federal Government may make such order, not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
Ordinance, as may appear to it to be necessary for the purposes of removing the difficulty. 
 7. Repeal .___ Immediately after incorporation and registration of Pakistan Reinsurance 
Company as public limited company, the Pakistan Insurance Corporation Act, 1952, (XXXVIII of 
1952) shall stand repealed.