Codification of laws completed

Three compiled volumes uploaded law department’s website

QUETTA:

Balochistan Law Department (BLD) has compiled all the laws from the year 1812 to 2021 in several volumes which have been uploaded on the website of the department for the convenience of lawyers, the general public and departments.

This was disclosed by Parliamentary Secretary Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Science and Information Technology Dr Rubaba Khan Buledi.

Director Codification Section of Law Department, Muzmal Hussain, Deputy Director Hafeezullah, and former Director Parliamentary Affairs Saeedullah on Friday presented her the published volumes.

She paid tribute to the entire team including the director and deputy director of codification section for completing the task within a short period of time.

She praised the high quality of work in printing and publishing and said that completion of the last volumes was pending for the last 29 years, which have been updated and compiled.

The first certified volume of the Balochistan Law Department was published in 1988, which included laws, orders, and ordinances from 1812 to 1962.

A second volume was published in 1992 containing updates from 1963 to 1969, a third volume was publicized in 1994 which compiled all information from the 1970 to the 1980.

These three volumes were completed and published in six years, and since then work on the codification project remained suspended.

“We had decided to end this 29-year backlog and restart the task,” she observed, adding that the Law Codification Section started drafting and printing by consolidating all laws, orders and references and completed the most difficult task of compiling, verifying and printing three volumes – four, five and six.

Volume four includes updates from 1981 to 2009, volume five from 2009 to 2014, and volume six from 2015 to 2021, she said.

Buledi said that all these important legal documents have been uploaded on balochistancode.gob.pk website of Balochistan Law Department for the convenience of government departments, lawyers and the public.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 18^th, 2023.