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Part VI (contd)
Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits
Chapter 3. PROPERTY, CONTRACTS, LIABILITIES AND SUITS.
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172.
Ownerless property.
- (1) Any property which has no rightful owner shall, if located
in a Province, vest in the Government of that Province, and in
every other case, in the Federal Government.
- (2) All lands, minerals and other things of value within the
continental shelf or underlying the ocean within the territorial
waters of Pakistan shall vest in the Federal Government.
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173.
Power to acquire property and to make contracts, etc.
- (1) The executive authority of the Federation and of a Province
shall extend, subject to any Act of the appropriate Legislature, to
the grant, sale, disposition or mortgage of any property vested in,
and to the purchase or acquisition of property on behalf of, the
Federal Government or, as the case may be, the Provincial
Government, and to the making of contracts.
- (2) All property acquired for the purposes of the Federation or
of a Province shall vest in the Federal Government or, as the case
may be, in the Provincial Government.
- (3) All contracts made in the exercise of the executive
authority of the Federation or of a Province shall be expressed to
be made in the name of the President or, as the case may be, the
Governor of the Province, and all such contracts and all assurances
of property made in the exercise of that authority shall be
executed on behalf of the President or Governor by such persons and
in such manner as he may direct or authorize.
- (4) Neither the President, nor the Governor of a Province,
shall be personally liable in respect of any contract or assurance
made or executed in the exercise of the executive authority of the
Federation or, as the case may be, the Province, nor shall any
person making or executing any such contract or assurance on behalf
of any of them be personally liable in respect thereof.
- (5) Transfer of land by the Federal Government or a Provincial
Government shall be regulated by law.
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174.
Suits and proceedings.
- The Federation may sue or be sued by the name of Pakistan and a
Province may sue or be sued by the name of the Province.
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