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BALOCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2002 BALOCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2002 ORDINANCE XII OF 2002 An Ordinance further to amend the Balochistan Local Government Ordinance, 2002 [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 5th August, 2002] No Legis: 1-122/Law/2001-VII, dated 5-8-2002.--The following Ordinance made by the Governor of Balochistan on 2nd August, 2002, is hereby published for general information: 2. Amendment of Section 2 of Ordinance XVIII of 2001.---In the Balochistan Local Government Ordinance, 2001, hereinafter referred to as e said Ordinance, in section 2.- (a) in clause (Vii), after the words "and financial authority for the" and before the word "management" the words and comma "operation functioning and" shall be inserted. (b) in clause (ix), for the word "damages" the word "damages" shall be substituted. (c) for clause (xvii), the following shall be substituted:- "(xvii) maladministration" means and includes- ' (a) an act of commission or commission, a decision, process or recommendation which: (i) is contrary to the law, rules or regulations or is a departure from established practice or procedure, or (ii) arbitrary, biased, discriminatory, oppressive, perverse, unjust, or unreasonable, or (iii) is based on irrelevant grounds, or (iv) involves the exercise of powers or the failures be refusal to do so for corrupt or improper motives, such as administrative excess, bribery, favouritism, jobbery and nepotism; (b) delay, inaction, incompetence, inefficiency and ineptitude or neglect in the administration or discharge of duties and responsibilities; or (c) repeated notices, prolonged hearings or unnecessary attendance while deciding cases: or (d) avoidance of disciplinary action against an officer or official whose action is held by a competence authority to be biased, capricious, patently illegal or "vindictive". (d) after clause (xxvii-a), the following new clauses shall be inserted:-- (xxvii-b) "Provincial Allocable Amount" means the expenditure charged upon the Provincial Consolidated Fund declared as such for distribution among Local Government in accordance with the provision of the Ordinance; (xxvii-c) "Provincial Consolidated Fund" means the same as described in Article 118 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; (xxvii-d) "Provincial Retained Amount" means the balance of the 'Provincial Consolidated Fund after subtraction of the Provincial Allocable "mount from it." (e) in clause (xxix), after the words "or land" and before semi colon he words "or use of any machinery, equipment or vehicle" shall be inserted.