Legal Definitions Glossary

(i) any agreement for the repayment or extension of time in repayment of a finance or for its restructuring or renewal or for payment or extension of time in payment of any other amounts relating to a finance or liquidated damages; and (ii) any and all representations, warranties and covenants made by or on behalf of the customer to a financial institution at any stage, including representations, warranties and covenants with regard to the ownership, mortgage, pledge, hypothecation or assignment of, or other charge on, assets or properties or repayment of a finance or payment of any other amounts relating to a finance or performance of an undertaking or fulfillment of a promise; and (iii) all duties imposed on the customer under this Ordinance

includes every duty enforceable by law

the occupancy certificate, or such other certificate by whatever name called, issued by the an authority empowered by law permitting occupation of any building constructed reasonably within the approved plan or layout as provided under local laws, which has the civic infrastructure such as water, sanitation and electricity available

the person who is in lawful possession of a property

any person, for the time being, in actual lawful occupation of the land or building and includes an owner in actual occupation of the land or building

any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force; it also includes any act in respect of which a complainant may be made under Section 20 of the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871.

an offence punishable under this Act except when committed by a person under ten years of age or by a person above ten years of age and under fourteen years of age, who has not attained sufficient maturity of understanding to judge the nature and consequences of his conduct on that occasion

“Offence” means the offences of corruption and corrupt practices and other offences as defined in this Ordinance [of the value not less than five hundred million rupees] and includes the offences specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance;

any director, chief executive, chief financial officer, company secretary or other authorised officer of a company

(i) poppy straw, that is to say, all parts of the poppy plant (Papaver somniferum or any other species of Papaver) after mowing other than the seeds; (ii) the spontaneously coagulated juice of capsules of poppy which has not been submitted to any manipulations other than those necessary for packing and transport; and (iii) any mixture, with or without natural materials, of any of the above forms of opium, but does not include any preparation containing not more than 0.2 per cent of morphine

(i) medicinal opium, that is, opium which has undergone the process necessary to adapt it for medicinal use; (ii) prepared opium, that is, any product of opium obtained by any series of operations designed to transform opium into an extract suitable for smoking, and the dross or other residue remaining after opium is smoked; (iii) morphine, that is, the principal alkaloid of opium having the chemical formula C17H19NO3 and its salts; (iv) diacetylmorphine, that is, the semisynthetic substance, also known as diamorphine or heroin, having the chemical formula C21 H23NO5 and its salts; and (v) all preparations containing more than 0.2 per cent of morphine, or containing any diacetylmorphine

the plant of the species Papaver Somniferum L

Order and Rules" means the ,,Orders and Rules,, as contained in the First Schedule to the Code of Civil procedure 19Og;

a resolution passed by a simple majority of such members of the company entitled to vote as are present in person or by proxy or exercise the option to vote through postal ballot, as provided in the articles or as may be specified, at a general meeting

any group, combination or body of persons

any association, unions, group or body of persons, whether or not such association, unions, group or body has been incorporated, established or registered in accordance with any law

any person holding a Pakistani passport, computerized national identity card (CNIC), National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP), or Pakistan Origin Card (POC), who ordinarily resides outside Pakistan

the person who actually owns the property at the time of his dispossession, otherwise than through a process of law;

the person for the time being receiving the rent of land and buildings or either of them, including an agent or trustee for any person or society or for any religious or charitable purpose or who would so receive the same if land or building was let to a tenant