131. Power of commissioned military officers to disperse assembly. When the public security is
manifestly endangered by any such assembly, and when 1[a police officer below the rank of an Assistant
Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent, of Police] can be communicated with, any commissioned officer
of 2[the Pakistan] Army may disperse such assembly by military force, and may arrest and confine any
persons forming part of it, in order to disperse such assembly or that they may be punished according to law
; but if, while, he is acting under this section, it becomes practicable for him to communicate with 1[a police
officer not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent, of Police], he shall do so,
and shall thenceforward obey the instructions of 1[such Police officer] as to whether he shall or shall not
continue such action.
3131A. Power to use military force for public security and maintenance of law and order.__(1) If
the Provincial Government is satisfied that, for the public security, protection of life and property, public
peace and the maintenance of law and order, it is necessary to secure the assistance of the armed forces or
civil armed forces, the Provincial Government may required, with the prior approval of the Federal
Government, or the Federal Government may on its own or on the request of the Provincial Government,
direct any officer of the armed forces or civil armed forces not below the rank of a JCO or equivelant to
render such assistance with the help of the forces under his command, and such assistance shall include the
exercise of powers specified in sections 46 to 49, 53, 54, 55 (a) (c), 58, 61, 64 to 67, 102 and 103 for a
particular area defined in the notification for a limited period of thirty days extendable by another period of
thirty days, as the circumstances may warrant :
Provided that such powers shall not included the powers of a Magistrate.
(2) Every such officer shall obey such requisition or direction, as the case may be, and in doing so may
use such force as the circumstances may require.
(3) In rendering assistance relating to exercise of powers specified in subsection (1), every officer shall,
as far as may be, follow the restrictions and conditions laid down in the Code.]
132. Protection against prosecution for act done under this Chapter. No prosecution against any
person for any act purporting to be done under this Chapter shall be instituted in any Criminal Court, except
with the sanction of the 4[Provincial Government] ; and___
(a) no 5* * * police officer acting under this Chapter in good faith,
(b) no officer acting under section 131 in good faith,
(c) no person doing any act in good faith, in compliance with a requisition under section 128 or
section 130, 6[or section 131A]. and
(d) no inferior officer, or soldier, 7[sailor or airman in the armed forces], doing any act in obedience
to any order which he was bound to obey,
shall be deemed to have thereby committed an offence :
1 Subs, added and ins. by Ord. 37 of 2001, ss. 3841 (w.e.f. 1482001).
2 Subs. by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch., for “Her Majesty’s” (with effect from the 23rd March, 1961).
3 Ins. by Ord. 81 of 02, s. 3.
4 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L.G.” , which had been subs. for “G.G. in C.” by the Devolution Act., 1920 (38 of 1920), s.2 and Sch. 1.
5 Omitted by Ord. 37 of 2001, s. 42 (w.e.f. 1482001).
6 Ins. by Ord. 81 of 02, ss. 45.
7 Subs. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1975 (49 of 1975), s. 4, for “or volunteer” (w.e.f 24475).
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