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ORDINANCE I OF 2010 ORDINANCE I OF 2010 ANTI-TERRORISM (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2010 An Ordinance further to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 1st February, 2010] No.2(I)/2010-Pub., dated 1-2-2010.---The following Ordinance promulgated by the President is herein published for general information: Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (XXVII of 1997), for the purposes hereinafter appearing; And whereas the National Assembly is not in session and the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary to take immediate action; Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 89 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance. 3. Amendment of section 11B, Act XXVII of 1997.---In the said Act, in section 11B, in subsection (1), in clause (c), for tl}e full. stop, at the end a colon shall be substituted and thereafter the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:--- "Provided that if any or all office bearers, activists or associates of a proscribed organization form a new organization under a different name; upon suspicion about their involvement in similar activities, the said organization shall also be deemed to be a proscribed organization and the Government may issue a formal notification of its proscription".