be confined only to making such provisions as facilitate, or are incidental to, the revocation of the
Proclamation of the fifth day of July, 1977.
(2) All orders made, proceedings taken and acts done by any authority or by any person, which
were made, taken or done, or purported to have been made, taken or done, between the fifth day of
July, 1977, and the date on which this Article comes into force, in exercise of the powers derived
from any Proclamation, President's Orders, Ordinances, Martial Law Regulations, Martial Law
Orders, enactments, notifications, rules, orders or byelaws, or in execution of or in compliance with
any order made or sentence passed by any authority in the exercise or purported exercise of powers
as aforesaid, shall, notwithstanding any judgement of any court, be deemed to be and always to have
been validly made, taken or done and shall not be called in question in any court on any ground
whatsoever.
(3) All President's Orders, Ordinances, Martial Law Regulations, Martial Law Orders,
enactments, notifications, rules, orders, or byelaws, in force immediately before the date on which
this Article comes into force shall continue in force until altered, repealed or amended by competent
authority.
Explanation.–In this clause, "competent authority" means,—
(a) in respect of President's Orders, Ordinances, Martial Law Regulations, Martial Law
Orders and enactments, the appropriate Legislature; and
(b) in respect of notifications, rules, orders and byelaws, the authority in which the power to
make, alter, repeal or amend the same vests under the law.
(4) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie in any court against any authority or
any person, for or on account of or in respect of any order made, proceedings taken or act done
whether in the exercise or purported exercise of the powers referred to in clause (2) or in execution
of or in compliance with orders made or sentences passed in exercise or purported exercise of such
powers.
(5) For the purposes of clauses (1), (2) and (4), all orders made, proceedings taken, acts done or
purporting to be made, taken or done by any authority or person shall be deemed to have been made,
taken or done in good faith and for the purpose intended to be served thereby.
1[(6) The laws referred to in clause (1) may be amended by the appropriate Legislature in the
manner provided for amendment of such laws.]
2[270AA. Declaration and continuance of laws etc. (1) The Proclamation of Emergency of the
fourteenth day of October, 1999, the Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 of 1999, the Oath of
Office (Judges) Order, 2000 (No. 1 of 2000), Chief Executive's Order No. 12 of 2002, Chief
Executive's Order No. 19 of 2002, the amendment made in the Constitution through the Legal
Framework Order, 2002 (Chief Executive's Order No. 24 of 2002), the Legal Framework
(Amendment) Order, 2002 (Chief Executive's Order No. 29 of 2002) and the Legal Framework
(Second Amendment) Order, 2002 (Chief Executive's Order No. 32 of 2002), notwithstanding any
judgement of any court including the Supreme Court or a High Court, are hereby declared as having
been made without lawful authority and of no legal effect.
1 Subs. by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010, (10 of 2010), s. 95, for ―clause (6)‖.
2 Subs. ibid. for "Article 270AA", s. 96.
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