Law: General Clauses Act, 1897

Section: 20A

Law: Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951

Section: 14,14(3)

Law: Pakistan Cricket Board Elections Regulations, 2015

Section: Regln.10(a)

Law: Sports (Development and Control) Ordinance, 1962

Section: 5

(a) Interpretation of statutes--- ----Publication of a statute in official gazette---Scope---No hard and fast rule of universal application can be laid down on effect of non-publication of rules/regulations in official gazette---Language employed in a particular statute, nature, intent and scope of rules/regulations, actions already taken thereunder, rights/liabilities effected/created thereby, indicate whether requirement of a publication in official gazette is to be treated as mandatory or directory--- Where a statute requires that rules/regulations should be notified by way of publication in official gazette but it does not go on to provide for a consequence of such non-publication, then such provision is to be interpreted as directory and not mandatory. (b) General Clauses Act (X of 1897)--- ----S. 20-A---Sindh General Clauses Act (VI of 1956), S. 19-A---Publication in official gazette---Principle---Where parent statute does not require rules/regulations to be published in official gazette, then S.19-A of Sindh General Clauses Act, 1956 and S. 20-A of General Clauses Act, 1897 (until provisions provide a consequence for non-publication) do not per se make publication in official gazette mandatory---Nature, intent and scope of rules/regulations, actions already taken thereunder, rights/liabilities, effected/created thereby are also the factors in determining consequences of non-publication. Saghir Ahmed v. Province of Punjab PLD 2004 SC 261; Printek (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Shahid Nabi Malik 2011 YLR 2941 and Ummatullah v. Province of Sindh PLD 2010 Kar. 236 rel. (c) Sports (Development and Control) Ordinance (XVI of 1962)--- ----S. 5---Pakistan Cricket Board Elections Regulations, 2015, Regln.10(a)---Notification of Regulation in official gazette---Scope---Regulation making power of Pakistan Cricket Board stems from S. 5 of Sports (Development and Control) Ordinance, 1962 which does not stipulate that such regulations should be notified or there should be notification in official gazette---Provision under which Pakistan Cricket Board Elections Regulations, 2015 are made does not require publication in official gazette. (d) Pakistan Cricket Board Elections…

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