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ACT XI OF 2019 ACT XI OF 2019 BALOCHISTAN CHARITIES (REGISTRATION, REGULATION AND FACILITATION) ACT, 2019 An Act to provide legal cover, substitute and consolidate the Laws for registration, regulation and facilitation of Charities in Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 25th October, 2019] No. PAB / Legis: V(15) / 2019, dated 25.10.2019.---The Balochistan Charities (Registration, Regulation and Facilitation (Bill No.15 of 2019) having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 12th October, 2019 and assented to by the Governor Balochistan, on 24th October, 2019 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---WHEREAS, it is expedient to provide legal cover, substitute and consolidate the Laws for registration, regulation and facilitation of Charities in Balochistan; and for the matter ancillary thereto or connected therewith; It is hereby enacted as follows:- 18. Funds Raising and Public Solicitation.---(1) Any Charity registered under this Act shall have the authority to indulge into fund-raising activities and seek public solicitation (both local and foreign). (2) Any Charity registered under this Act and undergoing an activity to collect funds shall ensure that,- (a) solicitations for donations have accurately and transparently informs donors the purpose for which donations are being collected; (b) the projects have actually been carried out for which funds were collected; (c) the beneficiaries are real; and (d) that the intended beneficiaries are the ones for whom funds were actually received. (3) Any person or group of persons, whether the office bearer, employee or the third party, found involved in collection of funds or public solicitation for/or on behalf of an unregistered, illegal or prescribed entity, shall be liable to a punishment of one year imprisonment or fine of two million rupees or both. (4) No individual, organization, society, charity, Trust, NGO or NPO etc can collect or raise funds/donations for charitable purposes as mentioned in Schedule-I from public through any campaign using mass media including electronic, social, digital or print media or through banners, placards, hoardings, public gathering etc until such society, charity, NGO or NPO etc is registered in terms of Section 4 and any violation of this provision will attract an action as mentioned hereunder in Section 20.