Proposed legislation: New K-P law to extend women’s row autonomy
The elect will be a corporate physique formed in Peshawar, while a supervision shall post a supervision officer of a arrange of BS-19, as a secretary of a elect for a three-year term. PHOTO: APP
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa supervision has tabled a check in a provincial public to reconstruct a elect on a station of women, creation it an unconstrained corporate entity.
The check patrician ‘The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Commission on a Status of Women Act 2016’ was tabled after a supervision encountered extreme critique over a existent law ‘The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on a Status of Women Act 2009’.
Members of polite multitude claimed that a law done a elect contingent on a provincial amicable gratification department, generally for a finances.
The new check grants financial liberty to a commission.
It states that a existent elect and a members shall continue their functions underneath this [the 2016 Act] compartment a expiry of their tenures. After their reign expired, a elect shall be reconstituted and it shall have 15 members, including chairperson, to be allocated by a government.
The chairperson shall be a lady empowered to have executive supervision over a supervision of a commission’s affairs. The bill, however, lacks supplies to mention gift and believe for a post.
In Punjab, a Commission on Status of Women Act 2014, it is imperative for a authority to have during slightest 15 years of believe of operative on issues relating to women and their rights.
The existent law and a tabled check are both uncertain in this regard. The authority or non-official members of a elect “shall be persons of integrity, good station and repute carrying a believe of laws relating to women. They shall be allocated for 3 years and can be re-appointed”.
At slightest 8 of a non-official members shall also be women, and during slightest one from any minority group.
Official members shall embody dual womanlike members of a provincial assembly, both to be nominated by a supervision and a personality of a opposition.
While a new check retains a name of a elect –
Commission on a Status of Women Fund – it empowers a elect to keep income in a control and also allows leisure to deposit it. The check empowers a elect to designate officers, advisers, consultants and employees. It also gives pursuit confidence and seniority of employees who were validly allocated underneath a existent law.
The elect will be a corporate physique formed in Peshawar, while a supervision shall post a supervision officer of a arrange of BS-19, as a secretary of a elect for a three-year term.
The secretary shall be principal accounting officer of a commission.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 10th, 2016.
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