27. Appointment of offices, employees and advisers.The Certification Council may appoint
such officers, employees and advisers as it may consider necessary for the efficient performance of
its functions on such terms and conditions as it may prescribe by the regulations.
(2) The Certification Council may establish regional or local offices as may be necessary for
efficient performance of its functions.
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CHAPTER VI
AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN LAWS
28. Amendment of Act XVII of 1996.(1) In the Pakistan Telecommunication (Reorganisation)
Act, 1996 (XVII of 1996), clause (b) of sub section (2) of section 57 shall be omitted.
(2) Any provision in any licence issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority under the
aforesaid Act prohibiting the provision or use of cryptography services shall cease to have effect
subject to provisions of this Ordinance.
29. Amendment of Presidential Order No. X of 1984. For the purposes of this Ordinance,
the QanuneShahadat Order, 1984, (P.O. No. 10 of 1984) shall be read subject to the amendments
specified, in the Schedule to this Ordinance.
30. Extension to electronic forms. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the
time being in force, the expressions "attestation", "books", "books of accounts". "certificate",
"charts", "deed", "document" "document of title" "execution", "instrument", "ledger", "map",
"original", "plans",' publish"', "recording" "register", "seal", "signature", "witnessing", "words",
"writing", or other words assuming paper or other tangible medium in relation thereto, shall, mutates
mutandis, extend to electronic forms thereof.
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CHAPTER VII
OTHER LAWS AND JURISDICTION
31. Application to certain laws barred.(1) Subject to subsection (2), nothing in this Ordinance
shall apply to:___
(a) a negotiable instrument as defined in section 13 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
(XXVI of 1881);
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