CHENAB FLOUR AND GENERAL MILLS vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Proviso to a provision in a statute — 2021 PTD 892 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2021 PTD 892 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2021
Reporter: PTD
Parties: CHENAB FLOUR AND GENERAL MILLS vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Proviso to a provision in a statute

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Judgment text as reported

CHENAB FLOUR AND GENERAL MILLS VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Proviso to a provision in a statute---Scope and purpose---As a general rule, a proviso was added to an enactment to qualify or create an exception to what was in the enactment---Ordinarily, a proviso was not interpreted as stating a general rule---However a proviso which was inserted to remedy unintended consequences and to make the provision workable, (or) a proviso which supplied an obvious omission in the section and was required to be read into the section to give the section a reasonable interpretation, was required to be treated as retrospective in operation, so that a reasonable interpretation could be given to the section as a whole.

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