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Article 253 — Maximum limits as to property, etc. ................................ ......................... 152

Article
253
Chapter
CHAPTER 4. – GENERAL
Index row title
Maximum limits as to property, etc. ................................ ......................... 152
Source document
Pakistan Constitution
Provision ID
6153c0b1-cc4d-4175-b0aa-6cd7c9539cc5

126 words

Verbatim text

(a) prescri be the maximum limits as to property or any class thereof which may be owned, held, possessed or controlled by any person; and (b) declare that any trade, business, industry or service specified in such law shall be carried on or owned, to the exclusion, comp lete or partial, of other persons, by the Federal Government or a Provincial Government, or by a corporation controlled by any such Govern ment. (2) Any law which permits a person to own beneficially or possess beneficially an area of land greater than th at which, immediately before the commencing day, he could have lawfully owned beneficially or possessed beneficially shall be invalid. 254. Failure to comply with requirement as to time does not render an act invalid

What this means

  • The index files this text under article 253 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
  • The index files it under the chapter heading “CHAPTER 4. – GENERAL”.
  • The row is titled “Maximum limits as to property, etc. ................................ ......................... 152”.
  • The passage runs to about 126 words.
  • Read plainly, it mentions property — it addresses property, possession, or taking property compulsorily (the words used: “property”).

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