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Azad Kashmir Courts and Laws Code (Amendment) Act No. 1 of 1952 (Government Order No. 185/52).

Country/Territory
Pakistan
Territorial subdivision
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Document type
Legislation
Date
1952
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
General
Keyword
Governance Court/tribunal Dispute settlement Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Indian Ocean, South Asian Seas, Southern Asia
Entry into force notes
This Act enters into force of the Azad Kashmir Courts and Laws Code of 1949 shall be the tenth day of June of the year 1949.
Abstract

This Act amends Azad Kashmir Courts and Laws Code of 1949. The following shall be substituted for Section 57 of the above mentioned Code: (i) provisions of the Indian Limitation Act shall govern all suits, appeals and application provided that the provisions of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Limitation. Act of the Old Dogra Regime shall apply to suits based on causes of action which accrued before entering into force of the Azad Kashmir Courts and Laws Code of 1949; (ii) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 11 of the Civil Procedure Code or any other Law for the time being in force, proceedings in suits in which the cause of action accrued before coming into force of the Azad Kashmir Courts and Laws Code 1949 and which were dismissed on account of being time barred in consequence of a change in the period of Limitation due to the enforcement of the Indian Limitation Act instead of the Jammu and Kashmir Limitation Act of the Old Regime, shall be revived and continued further by the Courts concerned on the application of the party adversely affected.

Full text
English
Website
law.ajk.gov.pk

References - Legislation

Amends

Jammu and Kashmir Courts and Laws Code of 1949.

Legislation | Pakistan | 1949

Keyword: Governance, Court/tribunal, Dispute settlement, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings

Source: FAO, FAOLEX