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Land Reform Laws
Pakistan's land-ceiling reform legislation — though the core land-ceiling provisions of the Land Reforms Act, 1977 were struck down by the Shariat Appellate Bench in 1990 and are no longer enforceable.
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ActA 1977 act that set ceilings on individual agricultural landholding and set up land commissions to enforce them, but whose core land-ceiling provisions (Sections 3 through 17, with limited exceptions) were struck down as un-Islamic by the Shariat Appellate Bench in 1990 and no longer have legal effect.
Land Reforms Regulation (Validation of Orders) Ordinance, 1978
OrdinanceA 1978 ordinance retroactively validating orders passed by the Chairman or Members of the Federal Land Commission under the Land Reforms Regulation, 1972, even against contrary court decisions, later extended to tribal areas of Balochistan and the former N.W.F.P.