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ACT III OF 2020 ACT III OF 2020 BALOCHISTAN WAQF PROPERTIES ACT, 2020 An Act to make provisions and to repeal be existing Waqf Properties Ordinance, 1979 [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 1st September, 2020] No. PAB/Legis;V(02)/2020, dated 1.9.2020.---The Balochistan Waqf Properties Bill, 2020 (Bill No. 02 of 2020),having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 26th August, 2020 and assented to by the Governor, Balochistan on 31st August, 2020 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly. WHEREAS to cater for the monitoring an evaluation purposes of the Waqf and to make provisions relating to the proper management and administration of Waqf Properties in Balochistan Province. AND WHEREAS it is expedient to make provisions relating to proper management and administration of waqf properties in the Balochistan or matters incidental thereto; 11. Eviction of persons wrongfully in possession of waqf properties.---Any person unauthorizedly entering upon occupation of any immovable waqf property or using or occupying any such property to the use or occupation whereof by reason of any provisions of this Act or any rule made there-under, he is not entitled or has ceased to be entitled may, after being given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against such action be summarily evicted by the Administrator, with the use of such force as may be necessary and any crop raised in such property shall be liable to forfeiture and any building or other construction erected thereon shall also, if not removed by such person after serving on him of a notice by the Administrator requiring him to remove such building or construction within a period of not less than thirty days of the service on him of such notice, be liable to summary removal after the expiry of the period specified in the notice.