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ORDINANCE IX OF 1998 ORDINANCE IX OF 1998 ANTI-TERRORISM (AMENDMENT), ORDINANCE, 1998 An Ordinance to amend the Anti-Terrorism, Act, 1997 [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 24th October, 1998] No.F.2(1)/98-Pub., dated 24-10-1998.--The following Ordinance made by the President is hereby published for general information: 11. Amendment of section 25, Act XXVII of 1997.--In the said Act, in section 25,-- (i) in subsection (1), for the words "an Appellate Tribunal" the words "a High Court" shall be substituted. (ii) in subsection (2), for the words "Appellate Tribunal" the words "High Court" shall be substituted; (iii) in subsection (3), for the words "an Appellate Tribunal" the words "a High Court" shall be substituted; (iv) in subsection (5), for the words "an Appellate Tribunal" the words "a High Court" shall be substituted; (v) subsection (6) shall be omitted; (vi) subsection (7) shall be omitted; (vii) in subsection (8), for the words "an Appellate Tribunal" the words "a High Court" shall be substituted; and (viii) after subsection (8) the following new subsections shall be added, namely:-- "(9) Any appeal being before an Appellate Tribunal immediately before the commencement of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1998 shall be deemed to be pending in the High Court. (10) Where any person entitled to file an appeal before an Appellate Tribunal immediately before the commencement of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1998, has not done so, he may, within seven days of such commencement, file an appeal before the High Court. (11) Where an Appellate Tribunal has, at any time before the commencement of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1998, on appeal reversed an order or judgment passed by a Special Court, an appeal may be filed against such order or judgment in the Supreme Court within thirty days of such commencement. ".