(p) "Registration Organization" means both the Registration Organization and the Directorate
General of Registration as in rules made under the National Registration, Act, 1973; (LVI
of 1973)
(q) "regulations" means regulations made under of this Ordinance;
(r) "rules" means rules made under this Ordinance; and
(s) "thing" or "things" means and includes all animate or inanimate things, plants animals,
objects, substances, items, concepts, ideas, laws, customs, qualities, signs, symbols,
circumstances, affairs, events, acts, deeds, works, transactions, documents, pieces of
movable or immovable property, tangible or intangible property, rights, privileges, duties,
entities, living or nonliving beings other��than a human being and any thing that can be
possessed, or owned, or explained, whether known or unknown.
CHAPTER II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUTHORITY
3. Establishment of the authority. —(1) As soon as may be, but not later than thirty days after
the commencement of this Ordinance, the Federal Government shall, by notification in the Official
Gazette, establish an Authority to be known as the National Database and Registration Authority for
carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) The Authority shall be a body corporate, with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property,
having perpetual succession and a common seal and shall by that name sue and be sued.
(3) The Authority shall consist of a Chairman, also to be called the Registrar General of Pakistan,
and 1[not less than] five members to be appointed by the Federal Government:
Provided that till such time the Authority is established the Chairman may exercise the powers
and perform the functions of the Authority [:]1
1[Provided that further that the Federal Government may, from time to time by notification in the
official Gazette, increase or decrease the number of members and prescribed mode of their
appointment as it may deem fit].
(4) No person shall be appointed as the Chairman or a member if he has been declared insolvent,
or convicted for an offence involving moral turpitude, or declared to be disqualified from
employment in, or dismissed from Government Service.
(5) The Chairman and a member shall, unless he resigns or is removed from office earlier as
hereinafter provided, hold office for a term of three years and shall be eligible for reappoint for 1[a
similar term or terms] the Federal Government may determine:
1 Ins. Subs. and Added by Act V of 2007, s. 2.
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