Military College of Engineering, Risalpur (Degree) Ordinance, 1962

This 1962 Ordinance grants the Military College of Engineering, Risalpur, a charter enabling it to award the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering, formalising its status as a degree-awarding institution. Section 3 establishes the College's structure -- consisting of the Controlling Authority, the Commandant, and the Academic Board -- and lists its powers, including providing civil engineering instruction, holding examinations and conferring the degree, cooperating with universities, creating teaching and administrative posts, awarding scholarships and fellowships, establishing teaching departments, and supervising student residence, discipline, health and welfare.

Section 4 designates the Engineer-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army as the College's Controlling Authority, with powers and duties determined by the Federal Government. Section 5 provides for a Commandant, appointed by the Controlling Authority, who exercises powers and duties the Controlling Authority determines. Section 6 establishes the Academic Board, chaired by the Commandant and including the College's Professors and Assistant Professors plus any other persons the Controlling Authority appoints. Section 7 gives the Academic Board its functions: advising the Controlling Authority on academic matters, arranging teaching and examinations, proposing new teaching departments, and prescribing (subject to Controlling Authority approval) the course of studies and syllabi for the Civil Engineering degree.

Section 8 gives the Federal Government rule-making power, and Section 9 lets the Controlling Authority make regulations (with Federal Government approval) consistent with those rules. Section 10 makes the Federal Government the final authority on interpreting any ambiguity in the Ordinance or rules/regulations. Section 11 protects the College's actions from being invalidated merely due to vacancies or defects in the Academic Board's composition. Section 12 bars courts from questioning orders made under the Ordinance and protects good-faith actions from lawsuits. Section 13 gives the Federal Government power to resolve difficulties in implementing the Ordinance, particularly around setting up its authorities.

This is a narrow, institution-specific charter law from 1962 that remains the legal basis for the College's degree-granting authority; its administrative details should be checked against the current official text if precise current arrangements matter.