Pakistan Military Academy (Degrees and Certificates) Ordinance, 1959

This 1959 Ordinance authorized the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul to award its own academic degrees and certificates to cadets and officers who complete its courses, rather than relying solely on outside universities.

Section 2 defines "Academy" as the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, and defines "certificate" and "degree" by reference to Parts II and I respectively of the Schedule attached to the Ordinance.

Section 3 gives the Academy the power to confer a degree on, or grant a certificate to, any gentleman cadet who successfully completes the appropriate course, and extends this power retroactively to any officer who had been commissioned from the Academy before the Ordinance came into force. A later amendment (1962) extended this power to cadets who completed training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, either before or after that amendment.

Section 4 lets the Academy make its own regulations to carry out the Ordinance's purposes, subject to prior written approval from the Federal Government. The Schedule specifies the actual qualifications: a B.A. (Kakul Academy) for the Arts Course and B.Sc. (Kakul Academy) for the Science Course under Part I (degrees), and an Intermediate in Arts or Intermediate in Science (Kakul Academy) under Part II (certificates).

This is an old, narrow ordinance (1959) specific to the Pakistan Military Academy's academic authority, and its listed degree/certificate names reflect the historical curriculum as stated in the extract.