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THE FRONTIER CORPS ORDINANCE, 1959
CONTENTS
1. Short title commencement and application.
2. Definitions.
3. Powers to maintain Frontier Corps.
4. Constitution of Frontier Corps.
5. Appointment and powers of superior officers.
6. Appointment of subordinate officers and men.
7. Superintendence, command control and administration of Frontier Corps.
8. More heinous offences.
9. Less heinous offences.
10. Summary punishments.
11. Place of imprisonment, and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.
12. Deductions from pay and allowances.
13. Collective fines.
14. Resignation and withdrawal from the Frontier Corps.
15. General duties of members of the Frontier Corps.
16. Protection of persons serving in the Frontier Corps.
17. Jurisdiction.
18. Commencement and execution of sentence.
19. Execution of sentence of detention.
20. [Interim Custody of offenders sentenced to transportation.]
21. Conveyance of prisoners from place to place.
22. Communication of certain orders to civil prison officers.
23. Custody of offenders.
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24. Capture of deserters.
25. Saving.
26. Power to make rules.
27. [Repeal].
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THE FRONTIER CORPS ORDINANCE, 1959
ORDINANCE No. XXVI OF 1959
[29th April, 1959]
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the regulation of the Frontier
Corps Units 1***.
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Regulation of the
Frontier Corps Units 1*** ;
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamation of the seventh day of October, 1958,
and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make and pro-
mulgate the following Ordinance, namely:—
1. Short title commencement and application.—(1) This Ordinance may be called the
Frontier Corps Ordinance, 1959.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
(3) It shall apply to the members of the Frontier Corps wherever they may be.
2. Definitions.−In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(a) “active service” means service against an external aggressor or enemy, or
against hostile tribes, raiders or other hostile persons, or persons co-operating
with or assisting such aggressor, enemy, tribes, raiders or hostile persons;
(b) “Commandant” means a person appointed under section 5 to be a
Commandant of a Unit of the Frontier Corps;
(c) “custody” means the arrest or confinement of a person according to the usages
of the service;
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[(cc) “Deputy Inspector General” means 3[a] the Deputy Inspector General, Frontier
Corps, appointed under section 5;]
(d) “Frontier Corps” means the Corps or Unit referred to in section 3 or any of the
individual forces comprising it, as the context may require;
(e) “Inspector General” means 3[an] Inspector General, Frontier Corps, appointed
under section 5 4* * *;
(f) “Junior Commissioned Officer” means a person commissioned, gazetted or in
pay, as a Junior Commissioned Officer in the Frontier Corps;
1
The words “operating in West Pakistan” omitted by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 2.
2
Cl. (cc) ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 3.
3
Subs. and shall be deemed always to have been so subs. by the Frontier Corps. (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 3.
4
The words “and includes the Deputy Inspector General, Frontier Corps appointed under that section” omitted, by Act 1 of 1965 s. 3.
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(g) “member of the Frontier Corps” means a person other than a person appointed
under section 5 by the 1[Federal Government], who at the commencement of
this Ordinance, is serving in the Frontier Corps or who after the
commencement of this Ordinance has been appointed to the Frontier Corps
under this Ordinance and has signed a recruiting roll set out in the Second
Schedule and the affirmation in the form set out in the Third Schedule, if not
already signed by him:
Provided that every person who has from the date of enrolment been in the receipt of pay as a
member of the Frontier Corps and has been borne on its roll shall be deemed to be a member of the
Frontier Corps notwithstanding that he has not signed the said recruiting roll and affirmation;
(h) “officer” means a person, other than a Junior Commissioned Officer, who is
commissioned, gazetted or in pay, as an officer of the Pakistan Army or of the
Frontier Corps;
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[(i) “Political Officer” means the Political Agent, Additional Political Agent,
Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Political Agent or Magistrate under whose
jurisdiction any Unit of the Frontier Corps may be stationed;].
(j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; and
(k) the expressions “assault”, “criminal force”, “fraudulently”, “murder”, “reason
to believe” and “voluntarily causing hurt” have the meaning respectively
assigned to them in the Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860).
3. Powers to maintain Frontier Crops.—There shall continue to be maintained by the
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[Federal Government] the Frontier Corps forces or units as listed in the First Schedule, primarily for
the better protection and administration of the external frontiers of Pakistan within the limits of or
adjoining the 3[Tribal Areas] of 4[Pakistan]:
Provided that the 1[Federal Government] may, by notification in the official Gazette, make
any addition to or omission from the list in that Schedule as and when a new force or unit is raised or
an existing one disbanded.
4. Constitution of Frontier Crops.—The Frontier Corps shall be constituted in such
manner, and the members of the Frontier Corps shall receive such pay, pension and other
remuneration, and shall enjoy such leave and other privileges as may be prescribed by the 2[Federal
Government] from time to time.
5. Appointment and powers of superior officers.—(1) The 1[Federal Government] may
appoint 5[as many Inspectors General, Frontier Corps, and Deputy Inspectors General, Frontier
Corps, as it considers necessary] and the Commandants or other officers of any unit of the Frontier
Corps.
1
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2 for “Central Government”.
2
Cl. (i) subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1965 (35 of 1965), s. 2, for the original clause (i) (with effect from the 15th May, 1965), have
further been subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 2, to read as above.
3
Subs. by A.O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch., for “Special Areas”.
4
Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Sch., for “West Pakistan”.
5
Subs. and shall be deemed always to have been so subs., by Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 4.
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[(1A) Where the Federal Government appoints more than one Inspector General or Deputy
Inspector General, it shall, by notification in the official Gazette, specify the area within which each
one of them shall exercise jurisdiction under this Ordinance.]
(2) Every Commandant and other officer so appointed shall possess, and may exercise, such
powers and authority over the subordinate officers and members of the Frontier Corps for the time
being under their command as is provided by or under this Ordinance.
6. Appointment of subordinate officers and men.—(1) The appointment of all subordinate
officers and other members of the Frontier Corps shall be made by the Inspector General or the
Commandants in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(2) Before a person is appointed under sub-section (1) the statement contained in the
recruiting roll and affirmation set out respectively in the Second and Third Schedules shall at any
convenient place be read out and, if necessary, explained to him in the presence of a Commandant, or
other officer appointed under section 5, and shall thereafter be signed by such person in
acknowledgement of its having been so read out to him.
(3) When the affirmation set out in the Third Schedule is read out it shall be repeated by the
person making affirmation before he signs it.
7. Superintendence, command control and administration of Frontier Crops.—(1) The
superintendence of and command and control over the Frontier Corps shall vest in the 2[Federal
Government], and the Frontier Corps shall be administered, commanded and controlled by the
Inspector General and the Commandants in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and any
rules made thereunder and such orders and instructions as may be made or issued by the 2[Federal
Government] from time to time.
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[(2) Every Frontier Corps and the Commandant of every Unit of a Frontier Corps shall, in
time of peace, be subject, save in respect of administration, internal economy and training, to the
directions of the Political Agent or the Deputy Commissioner of the Area within which the
headquarters of the Frontier Corps are located.]
8. More heinous offences.—(1) Every member of the Frontier Corps who—
(a) begins, excites, causes or conspires to cause or joins in any mutiny, or being
present at any mutiny does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress it, or
knowing, or having reason to believe in, the existence of any mutiny or of any
intention or conspiracy to mutiny, or of any conspiracy against the authority of
the Government does not, without delay, give information thereof to his
superior officer ; or
(b) uses, or attempts to use, criminal force to, or commits an assault on, his
superior officer whether on or off duty and whether or not knowing or having
reason to believe him to be such ; or
(c) shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post or guard which
is committed to his charge, or which it is his duty to defend ; or
(d) directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assists or relieves,
1
Ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2.
2
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s.2, for “Central Government”.
3
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 4, for the original sub-section (2).
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any person in arms against the authority of the Government, or omits to disclose immediately to his
superior officer any such correspondence coming to his knowledge ; or
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[(dd) deserts the Frontier Corps ; or]
(e) while on active service—
(i) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or
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(iii) being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly
relieved or without leave ; or
(iv) leaves his superior officer or his post or party to go in search of
plunder ; or
(v) quits his guard, picquet party or patrol without being regularly relieved
or without leave ; or
(vi) uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person bringing
provisions or other necessaries to camp or quarters, or forces a safe-
guard, or breaks into any house or other place for plunder, or plunders,
destroys or damages any property of any kind ; or
(vii) intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action or in camp,
garrison or quarters ; or
(viii) displays cowardice in the execution of his duty; shall be punishable, in
the case of clause (a), with death or imprisonment for a term which
may extend to fourteen years, and in other cases, with 3[imprisonment]
for life or for a period of not less than seven years, or with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, or with
fine which may extend to three months’ pay and allowances excluding
warm clothing and half mounting allowances, or with fine to that
extent in addition to such sentence of 4* * * imprisonment:
Provided that if any member of the Frontier Corps while on active service with
a force beyond the limits of Pakistan commits any offence described in
clause (c), clause (d) or 5[clause (dd)], he may be punished with death.
(2) If any member of the Frontier Corps is charged with committing any offence described in
clause (a) of sub-section (1), or an offence punishable under the proviso to that sub-section, or the
offence of murder, he may, notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance or in any other law
for the time being in force, be summarily tried for such offence by the Political Officer 6[* * *]
sitting with two other officers appointed by the Political Officer in consultation with the Com-
mandant for such purpose.
1
Cl. (dd) ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act 1965 (I of 1965), s. 5.
2
Sub-Clause (ii) Omitted, ibid.
3
Subs. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (27 of 1981), s. 3 and Sch. II.
4
Omitted, ibid.
5
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 5, for “sub-clause (ii) of clause (e)”.
6
Omitted by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 3.
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(3) Every officer appointed under sub-section (2) shall be either—
(a) a person appointed under section 5, or
(b) a person holding a commission in the Pakistan Army; or
(c) a civil officer of the Provincial or 1[Federal Government] holding Gazetted
Class I post:
Provided that, if circumstances permit, not less than one such officer shall be a person
appointed under section 5.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, if in a
trial under sub-section (2) one or both of the officers sitting with the Political Officer concur with
him in finding the accused person guilty of an offence referred to in that sub-section, and if the
Political Officer considers the case one in which a sentence of death should be passed, he may, in
passing such sentence, direct that the accused person shall be forthwith shot to death, and such
sentence shall be carried out in accordance with such direction.
9. Less heinous offences. Every member of the Frontier Corps who—
(a) is in a state of intoxication when on, or after having been warned for, any duty,
or on parade or on the line of march; or
(b) strikes or attempts to force any sentry; or
(c) being in command of a guard, picquet or patrol, refuses to receive any prisoner
or person duly committed to his charge, or releases without proper authority
any prisoner or person placed under his charge, or negligently suffers any such
prisoner or person to escape; or
(d) being under arrest or in confinement, leaves his arrest or confinement before
he is set at liberty by proper authority; or
(e) is grossly insubordinate or insolent to his superior officer in the execution of
his office; or
(f) refuses to superintend or assist in the making of any fieldwork or other work
of any description ordered to be made either in quarters or in the field; or
(g) strikes or otherwise ill-uses any member of the Frontier Corps subordinate to
him in rank or position; or
(h) being in command at any post or on the march, and receiving a report that any
one under his command has beaten or otherwise maltreated or oppressed any
person or has committed any riot or trespass, fails, on proof of the truth of the
report, to report the matter to the proper authority; or
(i) designedly or through neglect injures or loses or fraudulently disposes, of, his
arms, clothes, tools, equipments, ammunition, accoutrement 2[, animals] or
Frontier Corps necessaries, or any such articles entrusted to him or belonging
to any other person, or any animals belonging to the Frontier Corps; or
1
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2 for “Central Government”.
2
Ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 6.
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(j) malingers, or feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself, or
intentionally delays his cure or aggravates his disease or infirmity; or
(k) with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for service, voluntarily
causes hurt to himself or any other person; or
(l) does not, when called upon by his superior officer so to do or, upon ceasing to
be a member of the Frontier Corps forthwith deliver up, or duly account for,
all or any arms, ammunition, stores, accoutrements or other property issued or
supplied to him, or in his custody or possession, as a member of the Frontier
Corps; or
(m) knowingly furnishes a false return or report of the number or state of any men
under his command or charge or of any money, arms ammunition, clothing
equipments, stores or other property in his charge, whether belonging to such
men or to the Government or to any member of, or any person attached to, the
Frontier Corps, or through design or culpable neglect omits or refuses to make
or send any return or report of any of the matters aforesaid; or
(n) absents himself without leave, or without sufficient cause over-stays leave
granted to him; or
(o) contravenes any provision of this Ordinance for which no punishment is
expressly provided; or
(p) is guilty of any act or omission which, though not specified in this Ordinance,
is prejudicial to good order and discipline; or
(q) while not on active service, commits any of the offences described in clause
(e) of sub-section (1) of section 8, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to three
months pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing
allowances or with both.
10. Summary punishments.—(1) The Inspector General may, subject to any rules made
under this Ordinance summarily award, in lieu of or in addition to suspension, 1[Compulsory
retirement,] removal, or dismissal from service, any one or more of the following punishments to any
member of the Frontier Corps whom he considers to be guilty of disobedience, neglect of duty or
remissness in the discharge of any duty, or of rendering himself unfit to discharge his duty, or of
other misconduct in his capacity as a member of the Frontier Corps, that is to say:—
(a) reduction in rank;
(b) fine to any amount not exceeding one month’s pay and allowances;
(c) detention in quarters for a term not exceeding one month;
(d) rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, with or without
drill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;
(e) removal from any office of distinction or special emolument in the Frontier
Corps;
(f) extra guards and picquets;
1
Ins. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 4.
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[(g) forfeiture of increment in pay;]
(h) in the case of Junior Commissioned Officers and non commissioned officers,
reprimand or severe reprimand:
Provided that the punishments specified in clauses (c) and (d) shall not be awarded to Junior
Commissioned Officers.
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[(1A) The Inspector General may delegate, to such extent and in respect of such Frontier
Corps as he may think fit, the powers conferred upon him by sub-section (1) to the Deputy Inspector
General.]
(2) A Commandant may, in respect of members of the Frontier Corps subordinate to him
exercise the powers conferred on the Inspector General by sub-section (1):
Provided that a Commandant shall not award imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or,
in the case of a Junior Commissioned Officer, the punishment of reduction in rank.
(3) A Commandant may delegate, to such extent as he may think fit, the powers conferred
upon him by sub-section (2) to any person appointed under section 5 who is under his command.
11. Place of imprisonment, and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.—(1) Every person
sentenced under this Ordinance to imprisonment 3* * * may be removed or dismissed from the
Frontier Corps and shall be further liable by special order of the 4[Federal Government] or the Court,
to forfeiture of pay and allowances and other public money due to him as well as of any medals and
decorations received by him.
(2) Every person so sentenced to imprisonment shall, if he is so removed or dismissed, be
imprisoned in the nearest prison or such other prison as the 4[Central Government] may, by general
or special order, direct, but if he is not so removed or dismissed, he may, if the Court or the
Commandant so directs, be confined in the quarter guard or such other place as the Court or the
Commandant may consider suitable.
12. Deductions from pay and allowances. The following penal deductions may be made
from the pay and allowances of a member of the Frontier Corps by the Commandant under whom he
is serving, that is to say,—
(a) all pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing allowances
for every day of absence either on desertion or without leave and for every day
of imprisonment by a Criminal Court or of rigorous imprisonment awarded
under section 10;
(b) all pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing allowances
for every day while he is in custody on a charge for an offence of which he is
afterwards convicted;
1
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965), s. 7, for the original clause (g).
2
Sub-section (1A), ins. ibid.
3
Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration), 1981 (27 of 1981), s. 3, and Sch. II.
4
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974, (2 of 1975), s.2., for “Central Government”.
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(c) all pay and allowances excluding half mounting and warm clothing allowances
for every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness certified by the
medical officer attending on him at the hospital to have been caused by an
offence under this Ordinance committed by him;
(d) good service or good conduct pay ordered to be forfeited under section 10; and
(e) such sum as may be ordered by the Inspector General or the Commandant in
order to make good any expenses caused by the member of the Frontier Corps,
or any loss by him of, or damage or destruction done by him to, any arms,
ammunition, equipment, clothings, instruments, decorations or necessaries
belonging to the Frontier Corps or to any buildings or property,
13. Collective fines.—Whenever any weapon or part of a weapon or ammunition forming
part of the equipment of a company or other similar unit of the Frontier Corps is lost or stolen, the
Commandant may, after making such inquiry as he thinks fit and subject to such rules as may be
prescribed, impose a collective fine upon the subordinate officers and men of such unit, or upon so
many of them as in his judgment should be held responsible for such loss or theft.
14. Resignation and withdrawal from the Frontier Crops. No member of the Frontier
Corps shall be at liberty to—
(a) resign his appointment during the term of engagement,
(b) withdraw himself from all or any of the duties of his appointment, without the
sanction of the Commandant under whom he is serving or of some other
officer authorized by the Commandant to grant such sanction.
15. General duties of members of the Frontier Crops.—(1) It shall be the duty of every
member of the Frontier Corps promptly to obey and to execute all orders and warrants lawfully
issued to him by any competent authority, to detect and bring offenders to justice, and to apprehend
all persons whom he is legally authorized to apprehend and for whose apprehension sufficient
grounds exist.
(2) Every member of the Frontier Corps shall be liable to serve anywhere without and
beyond, as well as within, the land frontiers of Pakistan.
16. Protection of persons serving in the Frontier Crops.—(1) In any suit or proceeding
against any person appointed under section 5 or any member of the Frontier Corps for any act done
by him in pursuance of a warrant or order of a competent authority, it shall be lawful for him to plead
that such act was done by him under the authority of such warrant or order.
(2) Such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and
if it is so proved, the defendant shall thereupon be discharged from liability in respect of the act so
done by him, notwithstanding any defect in the jurisdiction of the authority which issued the warrant
or order.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, all suits
and proceedings (whether civil or criminal) against any person which may lawfully be brought for
anything done or intended to be done under the powers conferred by, or in pursuance of, any
provision of this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder, shall be commenced within three months
after the act complained of was committed, and not otherwise, and notice in writing of such suit or
proceeding and of the cause thereof shall be give to the defendant or his superior officer one month
at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding.
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17. Jurisdiction.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), the 1[Federal Government] may declare that any Court specified
for the purpose and no other shall be deemed to be the Court of Session or the Court of a Magistrate
for the disposal of cases or any class of cases arising under this Ordinance and that appeals from
sentences passed under this Ordinance or from any class of such sentences shall lie to any authority
specified by the 1[Federal Government] and no other.
(2) Any person invested with any powers under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V
of 1898), for the disposal of any case under this Ordinance within the limits of Pakistan shall, in
relation to any case arising under this Ordinance beyond such limits, have the same power and be
subject to the same conditions as to appeal and other matters as if such case had arisen within such
limits.
18. Commencement and execution of sentence.—(1) Whenever any person is sentenced
under this Ordinance to 2[imprisonment for life], rigorous imprisonment or detention, the term of
sentence shall, whether it has been revised or not, be reckoned to commence on the day on which the
original proceedings were signed by the Court.
(2) Whenever any sentence of 2[imprisonment for life] or rigorous imprisonment is passed
under this Ordinance, or whenever any sentence of death so passed is commuted to 2[imprisonment
for life] or to rigorous imprisonment, the Commandant of the corps to which the person under
sentence belongs, or such other officer as may be specified by the Inspector General shall forward a
warrant in the prescribed form to the officer in charge of the civil prison in which such person is to
be confined and shall forward him to such prison with the warrant:
Provided that in the case of a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for a period not exceeding
one month, the Court, may direct that the sentence shall be carried out in the Frontier Corps custody:
Provided further that, on active service, a sentence of rigorous imprisonment may be carried
out by confinement in such place as the Commandant of the corps in the field, may, from time to
time appoint.
(3) Whenever, in the opinion of the Inspector General, any sentence or portion of a sentence
of imprisonment cannot, for special reasons, be conveniently carried out in accordance with the
aforementioned provision, the Inspector General, may direct that such sentence or portion of
sentence shall be carried out by confinement in any civil prison or other fit place.
19. Execution of sentence of detention.—Where a sentence of detention is passed under this
Ordinance the person on whom that sentence has been passed shall undergo the term of his detention
either in a detention barrack specified by the Inspector General for the purpose, or in the Frontier
Corps custody, or partly in one and partly in the other but not in a prison.
20. [Interim Custody of offenders sentenced to transportation.]— Omitted by the Frontier
Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 6.
21. Conveyance of prisoners from place to place.—A person under sentence of
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[imprisonment for life], rigorous imprisonment or detention may, during his conveyance from place
to place, be subjected to such restraint as is necessary for his safe conduct and removal.
22. Communication of certain orders to civil prison officers.— Whenever an order is duly
made under this Ordinance setting aside or varying any sentence, order or warrant under which any
person is confined in a civil prison, a warrant in accordance with such order shall be forwarded by
the court or the officer, appointed for the purpose by the Inspector General, to the officer in charge of
the prison in which the person is confined.
1
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2, for “Central Government”.
2
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 5, for “Transportation”.
3
Subs., ibid, s.7.
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23. Custody of offenders.— (1) Any person subject to this Ordinance who is charged with
any offence may be taken into Frontier Corps custody by any Junior Commissioned Officer or non-
commissioned officer senior in rank to the person charged with any offence:
Provided that in the case offences of mutiny or murder, the offender may also be arrested by
any person junior to him in rank.
(2) Every Commandant shall take care that a person under his command when charged with
an offence is not detained in custody for more than forty-eight hours after the committal of such
person into custody is reported to him, without the charge being investigated, unless investigation
within that period seems to him to be impracticable having due regard to the public service and every
case of a person detained in custody beyond a period of forty-eight hours and the reason therefore
shall be reported by the Commandant to the prescribed authority while making an application for the
trial of the person charged:
Provided that in reckoning the period of forty-eight hours all public holidays shall be
excluded.
(3) In every case where any such person as is mentioned in sub-section (1) remains in custody
for a period exceeding eight days, without the orders of his trial, a special report giving reason for the
delay shall be made by the Commandant concerned to the Inspector General.
24. Capture of deserters.—(1) Whenever any person subject to this Ordinance deserts, his
Commandant shall give written information of the desertion to such civil authorities as in his opinion
may be able to afford assistance towards the capture of the deserter and such authorities shall
thereupon take steps for the apprehension of the said deserter in like manner as if he were a person
for whose apprehension a warrant had been issued by a magistrate, and shall deliver the deserter,
when apprehended, to Frontier Corps custody.
(2) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person whom he reasonably believes to
be subject to this Ordinance and a deserter or absentee without leave and bring him without delay
before the nearest magistrate, as if he were a deserter from the Pakistan Army.
25. Saving.— No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie for anything which is in
good faith done or intended to be done under this Ordinance or any rules made thereunder.
26. Power to make rules.—The 1[Federal Government] may, by notification in the official
Gazette, make rules2—
(a) regulating the functions and powers of persons appointed under section 5;
(b) regulating the classes and grades of, and the remuneration to be paid to,
members of the Frontier Corps and their conditions of service;
(c) fixing the period of service for members of the Frontier Corps in any local
areas;
(d) regulating the award of summary punishments under section 10, and providing
for appeals from or the revision of, orders under that section, and for the
remission of fines imposed under that section and of deductions made under
section 12;
(e) regulating the several or collective liability of members of the Frontier Corps
in the case of the loss or theft of weapons or ammunitions; and
1
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (2 of 1975), s. 2, for “Central Government”.
2
For the Frontier Corps Rules, 1961, see Gaz. of P., 1961, Pt. I, pp. 228—232.
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(f) generally, for the purpose of carrying into effect the 1[provisions] of this
Ordinance.
27. [Repeal.]— Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981
(27 of 1981), s. 3 and II Sch.
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2[FIRST SCHEDULE
(See section 3)
Frontier Corps forces maintained by the Federal Government—
A. Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier Province—
(1) The Headquarters, Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier Province;
(2) The Chitral Scouts;
(3) The Khyber Rifles;
(4) The Khurram Militia;
(5) The Thall Scouts;
(6) The Tochi Scouts;
(7) The South Waziristan Scouts;
(8) The Dir Scouts;
(9) The Mohmand Rifles;
(10) The Mahsud Scouts ;
(11) The Bajaur Scouts;
(12) The Shawal Rifles ;
(13) Training Centre; and
(14) The Kohistan Scouts;
B. Frontier Corps, Baluchistan—
(1) The Headquarters, Frontier Corps, Baluchistan;
(2) The Zhob Militia;
(3) The Pishin Scouts;
1
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (1 of 1965 ), s. 8, for “purposes”.
2
Subs. by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 8 for the first Schedule which was previously amended by Act, 1 of 1965 and
Ordinance, 35 of 1965, to read as above.
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(4) The Chagai Militia;
(5) The Mekran Scouts;
(6) The Kalat Scouts;
(7) The Sibi Scouts;
(8) The Maiwand Rifles;
(9) Training Center;
(10) The Bhambore Rifles;
(11) The Ghazaband Scouts;
(12) The Kharan Rifles and
(13) The Loralai Scouts.]
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SECOND SCHEDULE
[See section 6(2)]
(Recruiting roll)
After you have served in the Frontier Corps for such period as has been fixed under the
Frontier Corps Ordinance, 1959, you may at any time when not on active service, apply for your
discharge, through the officer to whom you may be subordinate to the Commandant, and you will be
granted your discharge after three months from the date of your application, unless your discharge
would cause the vacancies in that unit of the Frontier Corps to exceed one-tenth of the sanctioned
strength, in which case you shall be bound to remain until this objection is waived or removed. But
when on active service, you shall have no claim to a discharge, and you shall be bound to remain to
do your duty until the necessity for retaining you in the Frontier Corps ceases, when you may make
your application in the manner mentioned above.
Signed in acknowledgement of the above having been read out to me. I have understood the
purport of what has been read out.
Person enrolled
Date…………
Signed in my presence after I had ascertained that the recruit understood the purport of what
he signed.
Commandant or other enrolling officer.
Date………….
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THIRD SCHEDULE
FORM OF AFFIRMATION
[See section 6(2)]
I, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . solemnly affirm in the presence of Almighty God that I
will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Government of Pakistan and that I will, as in duty
bound, honestly and faithfully serve in the Pakistan Frontier Corps and go within the terms of my
enrolment wherever I may be ordered by air, land or sea, and that I will observe and obey all
commands of any officer set over me even to the peril of my life.
Signed in acknowledgement of the above
having been read out to me.
I subscribed to it.
……………………
Signed in my presence after I had
ascertained that the person
understood the purport of
what he signed.
………………….
Roman Urdu Translation of Affirmation
Main . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Khuda-i-Taala ko Hazir-o-nazir jankar iman se iqrar karta hun kh
main Pakistan ki Hukumat ka sache dil se wafadar rahunga aur Pakistan Frontier Corps men
imandari aur wafadari se khidmat ka farz baja launga. Bharti hone ki sharait ke mutabiq hawa,
khushki ya tari ke raste jahan bhi jane ka hukam melega jaounga our jise mera afsar muqarrar kia
jaega, uske sab hukam ki tamil our pairwi karunga, khah us men jan ka khatra ho.
Roman Pushto Translation of Affirmation
Zeh …………………………Pak Khudai Taala hazir au nazir ganran, au laiman sara iqrar kawam
the zo ba da Pakistan da Hukumat pa wafadari au da khpul zrah sidq zara ba da Pakistan Frontier
Corps khidmat kawam, au laka the ma bande farz wi so ba da zrah sadiq sara da bhartai da shartunu
pa mutdbiq, da darya khushki ya da hawa pa liyare har charta the ma to hukam wushi ba zam au
harsok the pa ma bande afsar muqarrar wi da hagba tolo bukmuno ba tamil au pairwi kawam ka pa
de ke da zan khatra, ham wi.
1
[Roman Baluchi Translation of Affirmation,
Man……………………. Khuda-i-Tala-Ha-Hazir-o-Nazir Zanta Imana Goon Quol Khna
ghan ke man Pakistan ae Hukumata Goon sidiq-e-Dila wafadare beyan Pakistan Frontier Corps-e-
Taha Imandari-o-Wafadari Khidmat-o-Farzha ada Kanen, Bharti Bayage sooratht Hawa, Hushki ya
Daryae-o-Zirri Raha Goon Key har Handia ke Rawagae Hukum Beraseeot-Rawaan-o-Har kesey dey
mani Afsar Muqarrar kanag bibeet aanhiencae har Hukama manna Tonrhein key anhienha ma saaye
Kahtra bibeet.].
1
Added by the Frontier Corps (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1981 (9 of 1981), s. 9.
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