President Asif Ali Zardari has promulgated the Alternative Energy Development Board Ordinance, 2009. Following is the text of the Ordinance, issued on December 1, 2009.
"Ordinance No LX of 2009 to provide for establishment of Alternative Energy Development Board; WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establishment of Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) as an autonomous body for the purpose of implementation of various policies, programmes and projects in the field of Alternative or Renewable Energy Technologies;
AND WHEREAS the objective of the Alternative Energy Development Board is to assist and facilitates development and generation of Alternative or Renewable Energy in order to achieve sustainable economic growth with transfer of technology for development of an indigenous technological base through a diversified energy generation;
AND WHEREAS the National Assembly is not in session and the President is satisfied that the circumstances exist which render it necessary to take immediate action; NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 89 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the Ordinance.