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ORDINANCE XX OF 1999 ANTI-TERRORISM (THIRD AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1999 ORDINANCE XX OF 1999 An Ordinance to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1999 [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 2nd December, 1999] No.F.2(I)/99-Pub., dated 2-12-1999.---The following Ordinance made by the President is hereby published for general information:-- 2. Amendment of section 13, Act XXVII of 1997.--In the Anti- Terrorism Act, 1997 (XXVII of 1997), hereinafter referred to as the said Act, in section 13, after subsection (3) the following new subsection shall be added, namely:-- "(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (2) and subsection (3), the Federal Government or if so directed by the Government, the Provincial Government shall in addition to the existing Special Courts or such other Special Courts as may be established in the area, establish one such additional Special Court under this Act at the principal seat of the Lahore High Court and the High Court of Sindh and appoint a Judge of such High Court as a Judge of Special Court in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court concerned, and where a Judge of a High Court is appointed as a Judge for any area under this act he shall be the administrative Judge for that area and such administrative Judge may, in .addition to the powers exercisable under this Act, either suo motu or on the application of any party, at any stage of the proceedings whether before or after the framing of charge, for sufficient cause including as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 28, transfer, withdraw or recall any case pending before any other Special Court in that area and may either try the case himself or make it over for trial to any other Special Court in that area. (5) The Special Court .to which a case is transferred or recalled for trial under subsection (4), shall proceed with the case from the stage at which it was pending immediately before such transfer or recall and it shall not be bound to recall or rehear any witness who has given evidence and may act on the evidence already recorded."