Spokesperson to the President former Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that the ordinances were re-promulgated by President Asif Ali Zardari on the advice of the Prime Minister to implement the Supreme Court verdict of July 31, 2009.
The SC verdict said that ordinances promulgated before November 3, 2007 had to be placed before the Parliament in 120 days. The deadline was November 28, 2009. The ordinances were re-promulgated, as the bills could not got passed from both the Houses within the deadline, he said.
THE RE-PROMULGATED ORDINANCES ARE:
1. Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance 2009
2. Competition Ordinance 2009
3. The Patents (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
4. Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Ordinance 2009
5. Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (Reorganisation and Conversion) Ordinance 2009
6. The National School of Public Policy (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
7. Federal Public Service Commission (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
8. Pakistan Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
9. Price Control and Prevention of Profiteering and Hoarding (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
10. Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
11. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Ordinance 2009
12. Recognition and Enforcement (Arbitration Agreements and Foreign Arbitral Awards) Ordinance 2009
13. Islamabad Consumers Protection (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
14. Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Ordinance 2009
15. Police Order (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
16. Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
17. Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
18. National Commission for Human Development (Amendment) Ordinance 2009
19. National Vocational and Technical Education Commission Ordinance 2009
20. Anti Money Laundering Ordinance 2009
21. Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan Ordinance 2009
22. National Disaster Management Ordinance 2009
23. Trade Organisations Ordinance 2009
24. Trade Development Authority of Pakistan Ordinance 2009
25. Defence Housing Authority Islamabad Ordinance 2009
26. Islamabad Capital Territory Private Educational Institutions (Regulation and Promotion) Ordinance 2009
27. Pakistan Army Act (Amendment) Ordinance 2009 to amend Pakistan Army Act 1952
28. National Command Authority Ordinance 2009.-PR