Section 3: Savings.―(1) Any law or legal instrument having the force of law in Gwadur (hereinafter

3. Savings.―(1) Any law or legal instrument having the force of law in Gwadur (hereinafter called Gwadur law) in force immediately before the eighth day of September, 1958, and corresponding to the provisions of any 2[Federal] law applied by the preceding section, shall stand repealed on and from the said day, and shall be deemed to have been re-enacted by such 2[Federal] law, as if the Gwadur law were a 2[Federal] Act, and the provisions of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1897), shall apply accordingly. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), anything done, action taken, right accrued, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred, under any Gwadur law on or after the eighth day of September, 1958, and immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been validly done, taken, accrued or incurred, as the case may be, and the 2[Federal] law by which such Gwadur law is deemed to have been re-enacted shall, to that extent, be deemed not to have come into force during that period. 1Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (Ordinance No. XXVII of 1981), s.3 and second schedule. 2Subs. by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (President’s Order No. 4 of 1975), Article 2 and Table. (3) Nothing in section 2 shall be deemed to have or ever to have had the effect of retrospectively creating any offence or of retrospectively enhancing the punishment for any offence provided for in any law for the time being in force. (4) Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Ordinance, the repeal by this Ordinance of any Gwadur law shall not affect― (a) the previous operation of any Gwadur law so repealed or the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered thereunder ; or (b) any right, title, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred thereunder, or any release or discharge already granted of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity, already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing ; or (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any Gwadur law so repealed ; or (d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, title, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid ; and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if this Ordinance had not been promulgated ; nor shall this Ordinance revive or restore anything not in force or existing at the time of its commencement or affect any law in which any Gwadur law hereby repealed has been applied, incorporated or referred to, or affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form, or cause of pleading, practice, or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding, that they respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognized or derived by, in or from any Gwadur law hereby repealed. RGN Date: 13-06-2024

Effective date: 1960-01-01

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