Legal Definitions Glossary

any service or means provided by the Commission for the lodging or filing of electronic documents

a paper printed or partially printed containing a bar code or having any of its unique identification code and such other information, as may be specified by the rules, to be generated and printed, on deposit of money equivalent to chargeable stamp duty in the account of the Government.] (12) "executed and "execution". "executed" and "execution", used with reference to instruments, mean "signed" and "signature" : 2[* * * * * * *]

a right not arising from contract, by which one person is entitled to remove and appropriate for his own profit any part of the soil belonging to another or anything growing in, or attached to or subsisting upon, the land of another

any institution where any kind of instruction is imparted in a formal or non-formal way whether it is on a full time or part time basis; including boarding houses, both public or private; registered or un- registered; and

the Election Commission constituted under Article 218 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, biometric, electrochemical, electromechanical, wireless or electromagnetic technology

documents in any electronic form and scanned images of physical documents

“employ” means to engage or permit to work;

the option given to the directors, officers or employees of a company or of its holding company or subsidiary company or companies, if any, which gives such directors, officers or employees, the right to purchase or to subscribe for shares of the company at a price to be determined in the manner as may be specified

“employer” means (i) in relation to a person or group of persons registered under the Act and employing domestic workers, such person or group of persons generally or collectively responsible for employment themselves or through an agent, working conditions, hours and care of domestic workers; and (ii) in relation to an establishment or agency, the owners of the establishment or agency or a person registered under the Act and having the ultimate control over the affair of the establishment or agency as well as any other person to whom affairs of such establishment or agency are entrusted whether such person is called an agent, a manager, an occupier or by any other name.

and apply to an entry in writing by a registering officer on a rider or covering slip to any document tendered for registration under this Act

a person who is registered as an engineer with the Pakistan Engineering Council

all electrical, electronic, mechanical, laser, scanning, x-ray, imaging, analyzing and testing machinery, equipment, device, tools, apparatus, including various utensils and related material and chemical or other substances which are used to determine the performance, functionality, disorder, ailment or any other effect on state of health of human; (xiv) "Fund "means the Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority Fund established under section 37

includes- (i) any bank, money changer or financial institution; and (ii) any office, firm, company, institution, industrial unit, undertaking, shop or premises used for undertaking any business, trade, manufacture, calling, service, employment or occupation

the total cost involved in developing the real estate project and includes the land cost, taxes, development and other charges

any person who, of his own accord, convenes an assembly, or is the head of rallies, or in relation to any organization or branch of an organization, any person appointed by such organization or branch to oversee or coordinate events

the area of the balcony or verandah, as the case may be, which is appurtenant to the net usable floor area of an apartment, meant for the exclusive use of the allottee; and "exclusive open terrace area" means the area of open terrace which is appurtenant to the net usable floor area of an apartment, meant for the exclusive use of the allottee.

the council, committee, trustees or other body, by whatever name called, to whom by the constitution of the charity its executive functions and the management of its affairs are entrusted

a person to whom the execution of the last will of a deceased person is, by the testators appointment, confided

shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (c) of section 2 of the Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of 1925)

an engineer, a valuer, an actuary, a chartered accountant or a cost and management accountant and any other person who has the power or authority to issue a certificate in pursuance of any law for the time being in force or any other person notified as such by the Commission

any bomb, grenade, dynamite, or explosive substance capable of causing an injury to any person or damage to any property and includes any explosive substance as defined in the Explosives Act, 1884 (Act IV of 1884)

roads and road systems landscaping, water supply, sewerage and drainage systems, electricity supply transformer, sub-station, solid waste management and disposal or any other work which may have to be executed in the periphery of, or outside, a project for its benefit, as may be provided under the local laws