{
  "schema_version": "qanun-law-text/1",
  "id": "punjab-code-6a38dbb618d6af2b",
  "title": "PUNJAB PRIVY PURSES (CHARGED EXPENDITURE) ORDINANCE, 1969",
  "source_collection": "Punjab",
  "content_kind": "stored_law_text",
  "content_extent": null,
  "source_url": "https://punjabcode.punjab.gov.pk/en/show_article/UmdTZgExBzA-",
  "version": null,
  "source_snapshot": "2026-08-06T16:59:24Z",
  "legal_status": "not independently verified",
  "text_quality": "Complete stored UTF-8 TXT file recovered byte-for-byte from owned Drive. Source transcription retained verbatim; legal completeness, OCR accuracy and current consolidation unverified.",
  "text_sha256": "9ec4407118750ac7df70e51e1a94581f3629e5f5fd955c90e63a8151547301a3",
  "source_sha256": "9ec4407118750ac7df70e51e1a94581f3629e5f5fd955c90e63a8151547301a3",
  "text_version_id": "law:punjab-code-6a38dbb618d6af2b:sha256:9ec4407118750ac7df70e51e1a94581f3629e5f5fd955c90e63a8151547301a3",
  "quality_flags": [],
  "encoding": "UTF-8",
  "text": "THE PUNJAB PRIVY PURSES (CHARGED EXPENDITURE) \r\nORDINANCE, 1969 \r\n(XLI of 1969) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title and commencement \r\n2. Payment of privy purses of Rulers of former States \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE \r\n2\r\n[PUNJAB] PRIVY PURSES (CHARGED EXPENDITURE) \r\nORDINANCE, 1969 \r\n(XLI of 1969) \r\n[24th November, 1969] \r\nAn \r\nOrdinance \r\nto declare the expenditure relating to privy purses of Rulers of former States \r\nincorporated in the Province of \r\n3\r\n[the Punjab] to be a charge on the Provincial \r\nConsolidated Fund. \r\nPreamble.– WHEREAS it is expedient to declare the expenditure relating to privy \r\npurses of Rulers of former States incorporated in the Province of \r\n4\r\n[the Punjab] to be \r\na charge on the Provincial Consolidated Fund; \r\n NOW, THEREFORE,  in pursuance of the Martial Law Proclamation of 25th \r\nMarch, 1969, read with the Provisional Constitution Order, and in exercise of all \r\npowers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor of West Pakistan is pleased to \r\nmake and promulgate the following Ordinance:– \r\n1. Short ti tle and commencement .– (1) This Ordinance may be called the \r\n5\r\n[Punjab] Privy Purses (Charged Expenditure) Ordinance, 1969. \r\n (2) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Payment of privy purses of Rulers of former States .– Any sum paid by the \r\n6\r\n[Federal Government] as privy purse to the Ruler of a former State or his successor \r\nunder any agreement for the time being in force between the \r\n7\r\n[Federal Government] \r\nand such Ruler or his successor shall, if such State has been incorporated into the \r\nProvince of \r\n8\r\n[the Punjab], be charged on the Provincial Consolidated Fund and be re-\r\n                                                 \r\n1This Ordinance was promulgated by Governor of West Pakistan on 18th November, 1969; published in the West Pakistan \r\nGazette (Extraordinary), dated 24th November, 1969, pages 2105 -6; saved by Article 281 of the Interim Constitution of \r\nPakistan (1972); and validated by the Validation of Laws Act, 1975 (LXIII of 1975). \r\n2Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. 14.8.1973, \r\nArticle 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425-A to 1425-PP. \r\n3Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. 14.8.1973, \r\nArticle 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425-A to 1425-PP. \r\n4Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. 14.8.1973, \r\nArticle 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425-A to 1425-PP. \r\n5Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. 14.8.1973, \r\nArticle 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425-A to 1425-PP. \r\n6Substituted for the words “Central Government” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. \r\n14.8.1973, Article 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette  (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425 -A \r\nto 1425-PP. \r\n7Substituted for the word s “Central Government” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. \r\n14.8.1973, Article 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette  (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425 -A \r\nto 1425-PP. \r\n8Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. 14.8.1973, \r\nArticle 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425-A to 1425-PP. \r\nimbursed to the \r\n9\r\n[Federal Government] out of the said Fund, and any such sum re -\r\nimbursed to the \r\n10\r\n[Federal Government] before the coming into force of this \r\nOrdinance shall be deemed to have been so charged and paid. \r\n                                                 \r\n9Substituted for the word s “Central Government” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. \r\n14.8.1973, Article 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Ext raordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425 -A \r\nto 1425-PP. \r\n10Substituted for the word s “Central Government” by the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (P.O. No. 1 of 1974), w.e.f. \r\n14.8.1973, Article 2 and the Schedule; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Ext raordinary), dated 20.11.1974, pages 1425 -A \r\nto 1425-PP.",
  "passage_offset_convention": "zero-based Unicode code points and UTF8 bytes; end exclusive",
  "passages": [
    {
      "passage_id": "law:punjab-code-6a38dbb618d6af2b:sha256:9ec4407118750ac7df70e51e1a94581f3629e5f5fd955c90e63a8151547301a3:chars-0-1684:384b16b074b4e3924eb7fac06b0371e03f923f0fea0e568875908834121a80e3",
      "character_start": 0,
      "character_end": 1684,
      "utf8_byte_start": 0,
      "utf8_byte_end": 1692,
      "passage_sha256": "384b16b074b4e3924eb7fac06b0371e03f923f0fea0e568875908834121a80e3",
      "reader_fragment": "p-0-1684-384b16b074b4e392"
    },
    {
      "passage_id": "law:punjab-code-6a38dbb618d6af2b:sha256:9ec4407118750ac7df70e51e1a94581f3629e5f5fd955c90e63a8151547301a3:chars-1684-3417:9e527a430e168a139a5a39491cd8ec356c5f52b75f2a79b2e6ecdd4912db444b",
      "character_start": 1684,
      "character_end": 3417,
      "utf8_byte_start": 1692,
      "utf8_byte_end": 3449,
      "passage_sha256": "9e527a430e168a139a5a39491cd8ec356c5f52b75f2a79b2e6ecdd4912db444b",
      "reader_fragment": "p-1684-3417-9e527a430e168a13"
    },
    {
      "passage_id": "law:punjab-code-6a38dbb618d6af2b:sha256:9ec4407118750ac7df70e51e1a94581f3629e5f5fd955c90e63a8151547301a3:chars-3417-4623:1f23b37766389b67c67b8662ac8e561174237d56c7f7443400b770ff949d2efb",
      "character_start": 3417,
      "character_end": 4623,
      "utf8_byte_start": 3449,
      "utf8_byte_end": 4667,
      "passage_sha256": "1f23b37766389b67c67b8662ac8e561174237d56c7f7443400b770ff949d2efb",
      "reader_fragment": "p-3417-4623-1f23b37766389b67"
    }
  ]
}