Eye Surgery (Restriction) ordinance, 1960

This 1960 Ordinance restricts eye surgery to registered medical practitioners, to protect patients from unqualified people performing operations on the eye. Section 2 defines "eye surgery" as any surgical operation performed on or relating to the eye using any kind of instrument, and defines "complete blindness" and "partial blindness" in terms of loss of light perception in one or both eyes. "Registered medical practitioner" means someone currently registered under Pakistan's medical practitioner registration laws.

Section 3 makes it an offence for anyone who is not a registered medical practitioner to perform eye surgery on another person, whether or not that person consented -- punishable with imprisonment of up to one year and a fine of up to one thousand rupees. The maximum imprisonment increases to three years if the unlawful surgery results in partial blindness, and to seven years if it results in complete blindness.

Section 4 separately criminalizes unqualified people merely practising, or claiming (directly or by implication) to practise or be willing to practise, eye surgery -- punishable by imprisonment of up to six months and a fine of up to five hundred rupees.

Section 5 makes offences under Section 3(1) and Section 4 cognizable, meaning police can arrest without a warrant, overriding the ordinary rules of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. Section 6 restricts trial of these offences to a Magistrate of the first class or higher.

This is an old ordinance (1960) with specific penalty figures stated directly in the extract -- imprisonment terms of six months to seven years and fines of five hundred to one thousand rupees, scaled to the harm caused -- which appear reliable as written, though readers should confirm no later amendment has changed them.