(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 naval, military or air force decoration,
medal, metal ribbon, badge, wound stripe or emblem, the use or wearing of which by an
unauthorised person is, by any law in force for the time being, an offence,
if purporting to be signed by or on behalf of a Secretary to the 1[Federal Government], or on
behalf of the Pakistan Military, Naval or Air Force Headquarters, or by the commanding officer or the
officer or record officer having the custody of the records of any portion of those forces or of any of
the ships of Pakistan Navy to which such person appears to have belonged, or alleges that he belongs
or had belonged, shall, be evi dence of the facts stated in such letter, return or other document.
(2) Any army, navy or air force list or gazette purporting to be published by authority shall be
evidence of the status and rank of the officers, junior commissioned officers or warrant officers
therein men tioned, and of any appointment held by such officers, junior commissioned officers or
warrant officers and of the corps, unit, battalion, ship, arm, branch or department of the service to
which such officers, junior com missioned officers or warrant officers belong.
(3) Where a record is made in any service book in pursuance of this Act or of any rules made
thereunder or otherwise in pursuance of duty and purports to be 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 thereby
stated.
1 Subs. by the Pakistan Army (Amdt.) Act, 1973, (51 of 1973), s. 3.
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