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Cabinet body considers many legal drafts Lahore May 25, 2021 LAHORE:The 60th meeting of the cabinet committee on legislative business was held at Civil Secretariat here on Monday under the chairmanship of Punjab Law and Cooperatives Minister Raja Basharat. The meeting considered many legal amendments and drafts of various departments. Legal proposals agreed upon by the committee included draft amendments to the Punjab Factories Act 2019, Punjab Hotels and Restaurant Rules 2021, draft of Punjab Tourist Guide Rules 2021 and draft of Punjab Travel Agencies Rules 2021. The committee directed the secretary Local Government to nominate a resident of Bahawalpur Division instead of Lahore for a vacant seat on the board of Bahawalpur Waste Management Company. ....
Assembly staff doesn’t let Nisar take oath Top Story May 25, 2021 LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly secretariat did not allow former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to swear in as member of the Punjab Assembly on Monday, citing absence of the speaker and his deputy. Talking to the media outside the assembly, Nisar announced moving the court against the authority concerned for not letting him take the oath. He said, “I had decided to stay away from politics and today, after three years, I am talking to the media.” He said: “I won the Punjab Assembly seat with a lead of 34,000 votes, but lost the National Assembly seat. I took a stand and still I am sticking to it, but decided to take oath in the wake of a political development.” ....
LAHORE: The Punjab government introduced in the Punjab Assembly the Sugar Factories (Control) (Second Amendment) Bill, 2021 to remove the anti-sugarcane grower provisions from the act passed on the subject by the house on May 4. The bill sent to the relevant standing committee for a report on it within two months restores powers of the provincial government to fix a date for the start of sugarcane crushing season, binds payment to growers through formal banking channels, and authorises the cane commissioner to determine the liability of a miller for payment of cane price within a specified time and in case of failure recover the amount as land arrears. ....