(f) A child commits an offence if he receives, generally or specifically, instructions or training
in acts of terrorism, and on conviction, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not less
than six months and not more than five years.
(8) A Court by which a person is convicted of an offence under this section may order the
forfeiture of any thing or property which it considers to have been in the person’s possession for
purposes connected with the offence, after giving any person, other than the convicted person, who
claims to be the owner or is otherwise interested, an opportunity of being heard.
21D. Bail.— (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 439, 491, 496, 497, 498, 498A and
561 of the Code, no Court, other than an Antiterrorism Court, a High Court or the Supreme Court of
Pakistan, shall have the power or jurisdiction to grant bail to or otherwise release an accused person
in a case triable by an Antiterrorism Court.
(2) All offences under this Act punishable with death or imprisonment 1* exceeding three years
shall be nonbailable:
Provided that if there appear reasonable grounds for believing that any person accused of non
bailable offence has been guilty of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life or
imprisonment for not less than ten years, such person shall not be released on bail.
(3) Subject to subsection (2), the Court may admit a person to bail, unless satisfied that there are
substantial grounds for believing that the person, if released on bail (whether subject to conditions or
not), would;
(a) fail to surrender to custody;
(b) commit an offence while on bail;
(c) interfere with a witness; otherwise obstruct or attempt to obstruct the course of justice,
whether in relation to himself or another person; or
(d) fails to comply with the condition of release (if any).
(4) In exercising its powers in relation to a person seeking bail under this Act the Court shall have
regard to such of the following considerations (as well as to any other which it considers relevant)
(a) the nature and seriousness of the offence with which the person is charged;
(b) the character, antecedents, associations and community ties of the person;
(c) the time which the person has already spent in custody and the time which he is likely to
spend in custody if he is not admitted to bail; and
(d) the strength of the evidence of his having committed the offence.
(5) Without prejudice to any other power to impose conditions on admission to bail, the Court
admitting a person to bail under this section may impose such conditions as it considers;
1 Omitted and shall be4 deemed always to have been so by Ord. No. VI of 2002, s. 11.
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