(i) having, or not having, at any time served in, or been dismissed or discharged from any part
of the armed forces of Pakistan ;
(ii) having, or not having, held any rank or appointment in, or been posted or transferred to
any part of such forces, or having or not having served in any particular country or place ;
or
(iii) being, or not being, authorised to use or wear any military, naval or air force decoration,
medal, ribbon, badge, wound stripe or emblem, the use or wearing of which by an
unauthorised person is, by any law for the time being in force an offence,
purports to have been signed by or on behalf of a Secretary to the 1[Federal Government], or by
an officer of any of the headquarters of the armed forces or by the commanding officer or the officer
having the custody of the records of any portion of those forces or of any ship or establishment of the
Pakistan Navy to which such person appears or alleges to belong or to have belonged shall be
evidence of the facts stated in such letter, return or other document.
(2) Any army, navy or air force list or gazette purporting to have been published by the
competent authority shall be evidence of the status, rank and appointment of the officer or warrant
officer and also of the unit or branch of the service to which he belongs according as it is shown in
the list or gazette.
(3) Where a record made in any service book in pursuance of this Ordinance or of any rules made
thereunder or otherwise in pursuance of duty purports to have been signed by the commanding
officer or by the officer whose duty it is to make such record, such record shall be evidence of the
facts therein stated.
(4) A copy of any record in any service book purporting to have been certified as a true copy by
the officer having the custody of such book shall be evidence of such record.
(5) Where any person subject to this Ordinance is being tried on a charge of desertion or of
absence without leave and such person has surrendered himself into the custody of, or has been
apprehended by, any officer, or any portion, of the armed forces of Pakistan, a certificate pur porting
to be signed by such officer, or by the commanding officer of that portion of the armed forces and
stating the fact, date and place of such surrender or apprehension, shall be evidence of the matters so
stated.
(6) Where any person subject to this Ordinance is being tried on a charge of desertion or of
absence without leave and such person has on arrest or surrender been taken to a police station in
Pakistan, a certificate purporting to have been signed by the officerincharge of that police station,
and stating the fact, date and place of such surrender or apprehen sion shall be evidence of the matters
so stated.
1 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government”.
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