Section 46A: Production of unpublished record of Bank, etc.

5[46A. Production of unpublished record of Bank, etc.—(1) No court, tribunal or other authority shall be entitled to compel the Bank or any person in the service of the Bank to produce, or, as the case may be, give any evidence derived from, any unpublished record of the Bank. (2) No court, tribunal or other authority shall permit anyone to produce or give evidence derived from, any unpublished record of the Bank, except with the prior permission in writing of the Governor who may give or whithhold such permission as he thinks fit. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, a report prepared by the Bank on a banking company under section 40 of the Banking Companies Ordinance, 1962(LVII of 1962) shall be deemed to be unpublished for the purposes of sub-section (1) and (2) even if a copy of such report has been supplied to the banking company to which the report pertains or to the Federal Government or to the Pakistan Banking Council constituted under section 9 of the Banks (Nationalization) Act, 1974 (XIX of 1974).]

Effective date: 1956-04-18

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