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  "text": "THE PUNJAB STRATEGIC COORDINATION ACT 2014  \r\n(XXV of 2014) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1 Short title, extent and commencement \r\n2. Definitions \r\n3. Provincial Security Council \r\n4. Provincial Strategic Coordination Board \r\n5. Functions of the Board \r\n6. Director General \r\n7 Directors \r\n8. Staff \r\n9. Power to obtain information \r\n10. Power to appoint advisors and specialists \r\n11. Power to make rules \r\n12. Repeal \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB STRATEGIC COORDINATION ACT 2014  \r\n(XXV of 2014) \r\n[10th November, 2014] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto establish the Provincial Security Council and Punjab Strategic Coordination Board. \r\nWhereas it is expedient to establish the institutional mechanism to take \r\neffective measures to counter terrorism; to formulate security and counter terrorism \r\npolicy; and to deal with ancillary matters; \r\nIt is enacted as follows:– \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement .– (1) This Act shall be cited as the \r\nPunjab Strategic Coordination Act 2014. \r\n(2) It extends to whole of the Punjab. \r\n(3) It shall come into force with effect from 7 September 2014. \r\n2. Definitions.– In this Act: \r\n(a) “Board” means the Provincial Strategic Coordination Board; \r\n(b) “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Council; \r\n(c) “Council” means the Provincial Security Council; \r\n(d) “Director General” means the Director General of the Board;  \r\n(e) “Government” means Government of the Punjab; and \r\n(f) “organization” means any statutory, non -statutory, autonomous or \r\nsemi-autonomous organization of the Government. \r\n3. Provincial Security Council .– \r\n2\r\n[(1) There shall be a Provinci al Security \r\nCouncil consisting of the following:  \r\n(a) Chief Minister;   Chairperson \r\n(b) Minister for Home;   Vice Chairperson \r\n(c) Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs; Member \r\n(d) two members of the Provincial Assembly of the Members \r\n Punjab, to be nominated by the Government; \r\n(e) Chief Secretary of the Government;  Member \r\n(f) Secretary to the Government, Home Department; Member \r\n                                                        \r\n1This Act was passed by the Punjab Assembly on 27 October 2014; assented to by the Governor of the  Punjab on 08 \r\nNovember 2014; and, was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 10 November 2014, pages 1695-1697. \r\n2Substituted by the Punjab Strategic Coordination (Ame ndment) Act 2015 (V of 2015); and published in the Punjab Gazette \r\n(Extraordinary), dated 24.2.2015, pages 2415-2416, s.2. \r\n(g) Provincial Police Officer, Punjab; Member \r\n(h) three persons to be nominated by the Government, Members \r\n each for a term of two years; and \r\n(i) Director General. Member/Secretary] \r\n(2) The Council may co-opt any other person for a meeting of the Council. \r\n(3) The Council shall perform the following functions:  \r\n(a) to approve a provincial security and counter terrorism policy; \r\n(b) to supervise coordination with the Federal security and intelligence \r\nagencies; \r\n(c) to review and monitor coordination amongst security and criminal \r\njustice agencies in the Province;  \r\n(d) to approve steps to be taken for improvement of security and , law and \r\norder; and \r\n(e) to exercise general supervision over working of the Board. \r\n(4) The Council shall meet at least once in a month or whenever it is \r\nconvened by the Chairperson. \r\n(5) The Council shall determine its own procedure. \r\n4. Provincial Strategic Coord ination Board .– (1) The Government shall, by \r\nnotification, establish a Provincial Strategic Coordination Board. \r\n(2) The Board shall consist of the following: \r\n(a) Chief Secretary of the Government; Convener \r\n(b) Secretary to the Government,  Member \r\nHome Department;  \r\n(c) Secretary to the Government, Member \r\n Prosecution Department; \r\n(d) Provincial Police Officer, Punjab; Member \r\n(e) Additional Inspector General Member \r\n (Special Branch), Punjab;  \r\n(f) Additional Inspector General Member \r\n (Counter Terrorism Department), Punjab; \r\n(g) three persons to be nominated by the  Members \r\n Government each for a term of two years; and \r\n(h) Director General. Member/Secretary \r\n(3) Six members of the Board shall constitute the quorum for a meeting of \r\nthe Board but a Secretary to the G overnment may be represented in the meeting by \r\nan officer of the Department not below the rank of an Additional Secretary. \r\n5. Functions of the Board.– The Board shall: \r\n(a) assist the Council in the formulation of provincial security and counter \r\nterrorism policy; \r\n(b) monitor compliance with the provincial security and counter terrorism \r\npolicy; \r\n(c) improve coordination between security and criminal justice agencies; \r\n(d) support institutional development and formulation of standard operating \r\nprocedures; \r\n(e) conduct, promote and coordinate research in relation to its mandate; \r\n(f) publish reports, statistics, research, monographs and other \r\npublications;  \r\n(g) support de-radicalization through public information; \r\n(h) support evidence led planning; \r\n(i) maintain a database of information; \r\n(j) monitor performance of provincial security and criminal justice \r\nagencies; \r\n(k) issue guidance notes; and \r\n(l) report and advise the Council upon matters of security and law and \r\norder. \r\n6. Director General .– (1) The administration of  the Board shall vest in the \r\nDirector General. \r\n(2) The Director General shall be an officer of the Government with such \r\nexperience of the security and justice sector as may be prescribed. \r\n(3) The Director General shall draw such pay and allowance s as may b e \r\ndetermined by the Government. \r\n7. Directors.– (1) The Board shall have the following five Directors: \r\n(a) Director Administration and Finance; \r\n(b) Director Research and Analysis; \r\n(c) Director Policy and Strategy Development; \r\n(d) Director Systems Development; and \r\n(e) Director Monitoring and Coordination. \r\n(2) The Directors shall work under the control and supervision of the \r\nDirector General. \r\n(3) A Director shall draw such pay and allowance s as may be determined \r\nby the Government. \r\n8. Staff.– There shall be such number of other officers and staff of the Board as \r\nthe Government may determine. \r\n9. Power to obtain information .– The Board may obtain such information from \r\nany department or organization as it may consider appropriate and the department \r\nor organization shall supply such information and in such format as may be called for \r\nby the Board. \r\n10. Power to appoint advisors and specialists .– The Board may appoint \r\nadvisors, consultants and specialists to undertake research and analysis on security \r\nrelated issues. \r\n11. Power to make rules .– The Government may, by notification in official \r\nGazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. \r\n12.  Repeal.– The Punjab Strategic Coordination Ordinance 2014 (IX of 2014) is \r\nhereby repealed.",
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