rate, and as regards persons serving under such conditions as the 1[Federal Government]
may direct, an officer, junior commissioned officer, warrant officer or noncommissioned
officer of the Pakistan Army or the Pakistan Air Force;
(xxxviii) all words and expressions used herein and defined in the Pakistan Penal Code
(Act XLV of 1860), 2[or in any Islamic law], and not hereinbefore defined, shall
have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code 3[or, as the case may
be, that law].
4[4A. Facilities for the performance of religious duties. All officers in command of ships and
establishments of the Pakistan Navy shall give reasonable facilities for the performance of religious
duties by officers, chief petty officers and sailors of their respective ships and establishments.]
CHAPTER II.__SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THIS
ORDINANCE IN CERTAIN CASES:
5. Application of this Ordinance to certain forces under the Federal Government. The
1[Federal Government] may, by notification, apply with or without modification all or any of the
provisions of this Ordinance to any force raised and maintained in Pakistan and suspend operation of
any other enactment for the time being applicable to the said force.
6. Special provision as to rank and command in certain cases.Any person or class of persons
subject to this Ordinance under clause (c) of subsection (2) of section 2__
(1) shall be so subject as officers, chief petty officers or petty officers as the 1[Federal
Government] or any officer authorised by it in that behalf may direct ;
(2) in respect of whom no direction under clause (1) is in force, shall be deemed to be of a rate
inferior to that of a petty officer ;
(3) shall be deemed to be under the commanding officer of the naval ship, naval vessel or naval
establishment, if any, to which he is attached, and if he is not so attached, under the command of any
officer who may, for the time being, be named as his commanding officer by the officer commanding
the force with which such person may be serving, or of any other prescribed officer, and if no such
officer is named or prescribed, under the command of the said officer commanding the force ;
1 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government”.
2 Ins. by the Pakistan Navy (Amdt.) Ordinance 1984 (37 of 1984), s. 2.
3 Added ibid.
4 Ins. ibid., s. 3.
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