Legal Definitions Glossary

a Judicial Magistrate and includes a Special Judicial Magistrate appointed under Sections 12 and 14. Clause m-a inserted. by Ordinance, XXXVII of 2001, dt.l3-8-2001.

a complaint filed against any person, including a public official with malafide intentions or other ulterior motives or to harass such person or public official

cruel treatment meted out to a child resulting from ignorance or wilful neglect

(i) all coca derivatives, medicinal hemp, opium derivatives, cannabis in any form and any mixture of stalks and flowering or fruiting tops of the Indian hemp plant (cannabis sativa L.), Acetic Anhydride; and (ii) any other narcotic substance which the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette made in pursuance of recommendations of any International Convention or otherwise, declare to be a manufactured drug

a place where persons assemble for the sale and purchase of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables or any other article of food or for the sale and purchase of livestock or animals and includes any place which may be notified as a market

(i) in relation to land acquired before the first day of January, 1968, the average market value thereof prevailing during the period commencing the first day of January, 1954, and ending on the thirty first day of December, 1958; (ii) in relation to land acquired on or after the first day of January, 1968, the aggregate of the average market value as aforesaid determined with reference to its classification recorded in the Register of Haqdaran Zamin as in force on that day and twenty-five per cent of such value; and (iii) in relation to land acquired on or after the first day of January, 1996, the market value as may be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 as applicable in the Province of the Punjab.

a security of such a description as to be capable of being sold in any stock market in Pakistan

betrothal, nikah and rukhsati

the Master Plan developed, maintained and enforced by Capital Development Authority

the Mayor of the Metropolitan Corporation elected as such under section 12

“Mayor” means the Mayor of the Town Corporation elected as such under section 16;

means a process in which a Mediator facilitates dispute resolution by encouraging communication and negotiation between the parties, in order for them to arrive at a mutually satisfactory agreement

Mediation Council constituted under section 16A.

the Medical and Dental Council constituted under the Medical and Dental Council Ordinance, 1962 (XXXII of 1962)

any negligence by an act or omission of a healthcare professional in performing his duty. In medical negligence cases it has to be established that- (a) there was a duty which the healthcare professional owed to the patient; (b) there was a breach of duty; (c) the breach resulted in injury to the patient; and (d) the injury resulted in causing damage or death

any extract or tincture of hemp

a meeting of two or more persons, whether in public or private

a member of the Authority

a member of the Food Authority; (r) 'misbranded food' means the food- (i) which is an imitation of or resembles another food, in a manner that it is likely to deceive the consumer; or (ii) which is so coloured, flavoured, coated, powdered or polished as to conceal the true nature of the food; or (iii) which is contained in any package which, or the label of which, bears any statement, design or device regarding the ingredients or the substances contained in the food, that is false or misleading

a member of a local government

the member of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority appointed under this Act

means the chairperson or the member of the adjudicating authority or the Appellate Tribunal, as the case may be

the memorandum of association of a company as originally framed or as altered from time to time in pursuance of company law or of this Act

subjecting or exposing a child to scaring, terrorizing and threatening behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or any other treatment which may diminish the sense of identity, dignity and self-respect

a mercantile agent having in the customary course of business as such agent authority either to sell goods, or to consign goods for the purposes of sale, or to buy goods, or to raise money on the security of goods

the Metropolitan Corporation notified as such under section 9

the Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan

a person who, under the provisions of the Majority Act, 1875 (IX of 1875), is to be deemed not to have attained his majority

a person who, according to the personal law to which he is subject, has not attained majority

any person subject to the Majority Act, 1875, who has not attained his majority within the meaning of that Act, and any other person who has not completed the age of eighteen years; and 'minority' means the status of any such person

notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, any person who has not completed the age of eighteen years

a person under the age of eighteen years

an article of food, - (a) which is an imitation of, or resembles an other food in such a manner that is likely to deceive the consumers; or (b) which is so coloured, flavoured, coated, powdered or polished as to conceal the true nature thereof; or (c) which is contained in any package which, or the label of which bears any statement, design, picture or description regarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, which is false or misleading

transgression of the prescribed code of conduct or dereliction of duty or deliberate unlawful behavior or violation of law or rules or lawful directions or orders of the Government and includes,- (i) gross negligence in the performance of duties with manifest wrongful intent or evil design; or (ii) an act that results in wrongful gain to any person by wrongful application of law; or (iii) making or managing appointment, promotion or transfer of an officer or official in violation of law or rules or for extraneous consideration; or (iv) bribery, corruption, jobbery, favoritism, nepotism or willful diversion of the fund of the local government

the same meaning as assigned to it in the Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and Control) Ordinance, 1980 (XXXI of 1980)

a monetary relief which a court may order under section 9

coins or notes in any currency, postal orders, money orders, bank credits, bank accounts, letter of credit, travelers cheques, bank cheques, bankers draft, in any form, electronic, digital or otherwise and such other kinds of monetary instruments or documents as the Federal Government may by order specify

a person, other than the Federal or Provincial Government or a financial institution, who lends money on interest or deals in interest based transactions and includes any person appointed by him to be in- charge of a branch office or branch offices or a liaison office or any other office by whatever name called, of his principal place of business and a pawn broker who carries on the business, of taking goods and chattels in pawn or pledge for a loan, offering payday loans, small personal loans or credit chits; Explanation- Where a money lender is resident outside the Islamabad Capital Territory, the agent of such person resident in that area, shall be deemed to be the money lender in respect of that business for the purposes of this Act

an interest or lien created on the property or assets of a company or any of its undertakings or both as security

every instrument whereby, for the purpose of securing money advanced, or to be advanced, by way of loan, or an existing or future debt, or the performance of an engagement, one person transfers, or creates, to or in favour of, another, a right over or in respect of specified property

property of every description, except immoveable property

an act or omission punishable under this Act and includes an act or omission declared as municipal offence under any other law for the time being in force in Islamabad Capital Territory