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ACT III OF 1973 ACT III OF 1973 BALUCHISTAN (AMENDMENT OF LAWS) ACT, 1973 An Act to amend certain lows in the Province of Baluchistan [Gazette of Baluchistan, Extraordinary, 24th January 1973] No. Legis. 6-18/Law/72.----The Baluchistan (Amendment of Laws) Act, 1973, having been passed by the provincial Assembly of Baluchistan on the 10th January 1973 and assented to by the Governor of Baluchistan on the 19th January 1973 is hereby published as an Act of the Provincial Legislature of Baluchistan. 3. Transfer of appeals etc.---(1) Save as provided in subsection (2), all appeals, review or (revision petitions or any other case pending before any Commissioner immediately before the fifteenth day of August Nineteen hundred and Seventy-two shall stand transferred to and be disposed of by the Revenue Commissioner to be appointed by the Provincial Government. (2) all appeals review or revision petitions or any other case, under the Civil Procedure (Special Provisions) Ordinance, 1968 (West Pakistan Ordinance I of 1968), or the Criminal Law (Special Provisions) Ordinance, 1968 (West Pakistan Ordinance It of 1968) pending before any authority under these Ordinances immediately before the fifteenth day of August Nineteen hundred and Seventy-two shall stand transferred to the correspond ing authority as indicated by the amendments in this Act: Provided that a Deputy Commissioner shall not hear an appeal against any decision, decree, sentence or order given, passed or made by himself in any capacity, and that such appeal shall be heard, notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in this Act, by the Revenue Commissioner appointed Harder subsection (1) : Provided further that a revision against an order passed in pursuance of the above v provision against any other decision, decree, sentence or order given, passed or made by a Commissioner under the above referred to two Ordinances, as existing immediately before the fifteenth day of August Nineteen hundred and Seventy two shall be heard, notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in this Act, by the Member Board of Revenue. (3) Subject to the control of Board of Revenue, the Revenue Commis sioner appointed under subsection (1) shall, for the purposes of sub section (1), exercise the same powers as were exercisable by a commissioner immediately before the fifteenth day of August Nineteen hundred and Seventy-two. (4) For the purpose of appeals against decisions, decrees, orders, sentences or judgments given, passed or made under the Quetta and Kalat (Civil and Criminal Law) Ordinance, 1965 (W. P. Ordinance No. III of 1965), and pending immediately before the fifteenth day of August Nineteen hundred and Seventy-two, the Revenue Commissioner appointed under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be the Commissioner for the purposes of that Ordinance.