Net work Analyser Study Centre (Transfer to WAPD) Ordinance, 1983

This is a short, narrowly scoped 1983 ordinance that transferred a single government facility — the Network Analyser Study Centre in Lahore, previously under the office of the Chief Engineering Adviser — to the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). Section 2 fixes the "appointed day" of the transfer as 18 July 1981, meaning the ordinance applied retrospectively to formalise a transfer that had already effectively taken place.

Section 3 sets out the financial and property terms of the transfer: WAPDA was required to pay the Federal Government the book value of the network analyser, air-conditioning equipment, and other items, calculated using the original cost minus depreciation at 3.3 percent per year from the date each item was first put into service. Ownership of the land and buildings stayed with the Federal Government, rent-free to WAPDA, and the government reserved the right to build offices for the Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters on any vacant part of the site. WAPDA was also required to carry out studies at the Centre for the Federal Government free of charge whenever asked.

Section 4 handled the Centre's civil servants. Every civil servant employed at the Centre immediately before the appointed day, including those on deputation elsewhere, was transferred to become an employee of WAPDA on the same terms and conditions they previously had, including pay, tenure, and pension rights, unless those terms were later changed by regulation (which could not make them worse off). Employees already on deputation could opt, within three months, to transfer permanently to WAPDA on those terms. Anyone who instead chose not to transfer had their government service terminated, with a right to three months' remuneration as compensation, treated for pension purposes as a discharge due to abolition of their post — in addition to, not instead of, any pension or provident fund benefits they were otherwise entitled to.