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  "title": "DERA GHAZI KHAN EXCLUDED AREA LAWS REGULATION, 1950",
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  "text": "THE DERA GHAZI KHAN EXCLUDED AREA LAWS \r\nREGULATION, 1950 \r\n(II of 1950) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement. \r\n2. Definitions. \r\n3. Cessation of the enforcement of certain laws. \r\n4. Enforcement of Laws. \r\n5. Savings. \r\n \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE DERA GHAZI KHAN EXCLUDED AREA LAWS REGULATION, 1950 \r\n(II of 1950) \r\n[14 November 1950] \r\nRegulation for the peace and good Government of the Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded \r\nArea, under section 92 of the Government of India Act, 1935. \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement .– (1) This Regulation may be called \r\nthe Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area Laws Regulation, 1950. \r\n (2) It shall extend to the Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area. \r\n (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the date\r\n2\r\n when the \r\nBaluch Area was declared an Excluded Area. \r\n2. Definitions.– In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires– \r\n(i) “Baluch Area” means the area lying beyond the western border of Dera \r\nGhazi Khan district of the Punjab which was included in the Province of \r\nThe Punjab under the Governor -General’s Order No. 2 of 1950, \r\npublished under the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, \r\nNotification No. F.5(1)-F/50, dated 13th April, 1950\r\n3\r\n. \r\n(ii) “Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area” means the Baluch Area declared to \r\nbe an Excluded Area, in the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions \r\nNotification No. D.2162-F/50, dated the 17th April, 1950\r\n4\r\n. \r\n(iii) “Laws” mean Acts, Ordi nances, Regulations, Rules, Bye -laws, Orders, \r\nNotifications or any other instruments issued thereunder. \r\n3. Cessation of the enforcement of certain laws .– All laws which came into \r\nforce in the Baluch Area when that area became a part of the  Province of the Punjab \r\nand before it was declared an Excluded Area shall, with effect from the date of the \r\ncoming into force of this Regulation, cease to be in force in the Dera Ghazi Khan \r\nExcluded Area. \r\n4. Enforcement of Laws.– All such laws as were in force in the Baluc h Area on \r\nthe 14th day of August 1947, shall, as from the date of the coming into force of this \r\nRegulation, apply to the Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area. \r\n                                                           \r\n1This Regulation for the peace and good Government of the Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area made by the Governor of the \r\nPunjab, received the assent of the Governor -General on October  19, 1950, published for  general information as having the \r\nforce of law under sub -section (2) of section 92 of the Government of India Act, 1935, in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), \r\ndated November 14, 1950, pp. 271-272. \r\n2It was declared  so by the Ministry of States and Frontie r Regions vide Notification No. D .2162-F/50, dated April  17, 1950, \r\npublished in the Gazette of Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated April 17, 1950, p. 287. \r\n3The Pakistan (Punjab Boundary) Order, 1950, (Order No.  G.G.O. 2 of 1950) issued by the Ministry of State s and Frontier \r\nRegions vide Notification No. F. -5(1)-F./50, dated April 13, 1950, published in the Gazette of Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated \r\nApril 13, 1950, p. 278. \r\n4Notification No. D.2162-F/50, dated April 17, 1950, published in the Gazette of Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated April 17, 1950, \r\np. 287. \r\n5. Savings.– Anything done, any investigation started or any legal proceeding \r\ninstituted in the Baluch Area before the coming into force of this Regulation– \r\n(i) under any law in force in that area on the 14th day of August 1947; or \r\n(ii) under any law in force in that area from the date when that area was \r\nincluded in the Province of the Punjab till it was dec lared an excluded \r\narea; \r\nand not inconsistent with any law made applicable to the Dera Ghazi Khan \r\nExcluded Area by this Regulation shall be deemed to have been done, started \r\nor instituted in the said Excluded Area under the corresponding provision of \r\nthe law so made applicable in that Area by this Regulation.",
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