Islamabad Club (Administration) Ordinance, 1978

This Ordinance reorganised the running of the Islamabad Club, a social and residential club originally set up for the use of Federal Government officers and members of the diplomatic corps based in Islamabad, which had been operated by a private company. Section 3 makes this Ordinance override the Companies Act, 1913 and any other conflicting law.

Section 4 is the key transitional provision: on the Ordinance's commencement, the company running the Club was dissolved, anyone previously exercising management power over the Club lost that authority, and administration of the Club's affairs vested instead in a government-appointed Administrator. All of the company's assets (movable and immovable property, cash, investments, and related rights), debts, liabilities, contracts, and pending legal cases were transferred to and deemed to be held by the Administrator instead.

Section 5 (as later amended) makes the President of Pakistan the Club's Patron. Section 6 provides that the Administrator is a serving government officer of at least grade 21 in the National Pay Scales, appointed by the Federal Government to run the Club in addition to their regular duties, normally for a two-year term, and empowered to do whatever is necessary for the Club's efficient administration, subject to Federal Government direction.

Section 6A establishes a Managing Committee to aid and advise the Administrator, made up of five Service Members of the Club, three other Club members, and one member of the Islamabad diplomatic corps (nominated by the corps' doyen), each normally serving two-year terms.

Section 7 preserved the jobs of existing Club employees on their existing terms. Sections 8 and 9 bar courts from granting injunctions or entertaining proceedings over actions taken under the Ordinance in good faith, and protect the government and Administrator from being sued over such actions.

This is a specific institutional-governance law from 1978 (amended in 1979 and 1980) that remains the framework governing how the Islamabad Club, a well-known Islamabad institution, is administered.