International Islamic University Ordinance, 1985

This 1985 ordinance turned the existing Islamic University, Islamabad into the International Islamic University (IIU), giving it full autonomy to run its own academic and financial affairs. Section 4 formally re-establishes and renames the university, makes it a body corporate that can sue, be sued, and hold property, and puts it in charge of looking after the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Section 5 spells out its broad powers: admitting and examining students, awarding degrees and diplomas, setting courses of study, hiring professors and researchers, setting up institutes, faculties and hostels, charging fees, and accepting grants, donations and endowments from Pakistan and abroad.

The university is run through a layered structure. Chapter III (Sections 8-15) sets out its officers -- the Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, Rector, President and Vice-Presidents -- while Chapter IV (Sections 16-27) creates its governing bodies: the Board of Trustees, the Board of Governors (which has the main powers under Section 21), and the Academic Council, which handles academic matters under Section 22-23. Chapter V lets the university make its own Statutes, Regulations and Rules (Sections 28-30) to fill in day-to-day operating details.

Money matters are covered in Chapter VI: a University Fund is created under Section 31, with rules on payments, accounts and annual audits. Chapter VII deals with staffing and governance safeguards -- how staff can be retired or dismissed (with a right to show cause and appeal to the Board of Governors under Sections 36-38), pensions and provident funds, and protection of university officials from being sued for actions taken in good faith (Section 47).

The Schedule attached to the ordinance sets out the university's 'First Statutes,' and four annexes describe specialised bodies under the university's umbrella: the Islamic Research Institute, the International Institute of Islamic Economics, the Shariah Academy, and the Academy for Da'wah Training of Imams. The extract includes detail on how the Shariah Academy in particular is run -- its own Director-General, budget, and requirement to submit an annual report to the university's governing bodies.

This is a departmental/institutional law rather than one that regulates the public directly; its main relevance to an ordinary reader is understanding how IIU is governed, who its officers are, and that it operates under its own statutes rather than as an ordinary government department.