Pakistan Territorial Force Act, 1950

The Pakistan Territorial Force Act, 1950 set up a part-time volunteer military force separate from the regular army, called the Pakistan Territorial Force. Any male citizen or domiciled resident of Pakistan could volunteer (Section 6) and be enrolled for up to six years, then get assigned to a corps or unit (Section 7).

Section 3 establishes the Force itself, and Section 4 lets the government create, disband, or reorganise units, including special "university corps" made up of students and staff at Pakistani universities. Section 5 divides officers into commissioned and junior commissioned classes. Enrolled members could be transferred between units (Section 8), had to report changes of residence (Section 9), and were entitled to discharge once their enrolment period ended, though discharge could be delayed while they were on active military service (Section 10).

Section 11 explains when members had to actually perform military service — when called out to support the civil power, when their unit was formally embodied to support the regular Pakistan Army in an emergency, or when attached to an Army unit at their own request; Section 12 limited such service to within Pakistan unless the government specifically ordered otherwise. Section 13 applied the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 to Territorial Force members while on duty, meaning they became subject to military discipline and courts martial in that period, with some special rules for university corps trainees. Section 14 allowed summary punishment (with a fine up to fifty rupees under the version in this extract) for breaches of rules, tried only by a magistrate of the first class or higher.

Section 19 exempted enrolled members from local taxes on vehicles and animals they were authorised to keep for Force duties. This is an old law, and Section 20 shows it was itself partly repealed by the Repealing and Amending Ordinance, 1965; the extract also carries many "Subs. by"/"Omitted by" amendment footnotes, so current applicability and any figures should be verified against the latest official text.