[MARTIAL LAW REGULATION NO.56]
[October 27, 1969]
1. This Regulation shall come into force at once and shall take effect notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being, and
shall apply to the whole of Pakistan.
2. In this Regulation there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:-
(a) 'Absentee' means a person who holds a permit to apply a stage carriage
of which he is not the actual owner.
(b) 'Actual owner' means a person or a body of persons having proprietary
rights in a stage carriage acquired by way of purchase, gift in heritance,
or under a hire-purchase agreement, or as a result of the settlement of a
lawful claim.
(c) 'Person' includes an individual, a firm, an association of persons, a
body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, a company and any other
judicial person.
3. (1) Any permit to play a stage carriage issued in
favour of an absentee shall cease to be valid and shall stand cancelled forthwith
and subject to sub-paragraph (2), no stage carriage shall be plied on the
authority of any such permit.
(2) Notwithstanding the cancellation of a permit under sub-paragraph (1) stage
carriage in respect of which the permit was issued may for period of 20 days
following the cancellation, on the same routes and terms and conditions as
were applicable immediately before the cancellation.
4. Any person who is in possession of a permit which
stands cancelled under Paragraph 3 shall, within 15 days of such cancellation
surrender the permit to the authority by which it was issued.
5. Whoever plys a stage carriage in contravention of Paragraph 3 or retain
a permit in contravention of Paragraph 4 shall be punishable with rigorous
imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or fine or both.
6. For the purpose of ascertaining the actual owner of stage carriage, the
entry in the certificate of registration shall not be conclusive proof of
ownership.
7. The Provincial Government may make rules to provide for:
(a) The procedure for determining actual owners of
stage carriage;
(b) The procedure for issuance of permits to the actual owners of stage carriages;
and
(c) Such other matters as may be necessary for carrying out of purpose this
Regulation.