1. ' APTAB HussaIN, C 3.-The Act repealed the following Acts and Regulations :-
(I) the Registration of Claims (Displaced Persons) Act, 1956 (Act III of 1956).
(ii) the Pakistan Rehabilitation Act, 1956,
(iii) the Pakistan (Administration of Evacuee Property) Act, 1957,
(iv) the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1958,
(v) the Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act, 1958,
(vi) the Scrutiny of Claims (Evacuee Property) Regulation, 1961, and
(vii) the Price of Evacuee Property and Public Dues (Recovery) Regulation, 1971.
2. ' It is for this reason that none of these Acts were examined. Any examination of the Laws which are no longer a part of the statute book would be an exercise in futility. Moreover, the Constitution provides for the examination of existing laws and not of the laws which are on longer in form 34 F SC Objections were received from Mr. Asghar All and Raja Muhammad Idrees Khan against the repealing Act.
3. ' Mr. Asghar All has referred only to some fraudulent transfers which are beyond the scope of our examination and enquiry.
4. ' Raja Muhammad Idrees says that except the first five laws referred to above which were according to the Qur'an and Sunnah, the Regulation of 1961 was against Sharia while the Regulation of 1971 was unnecessary. His objection is that the first 5 laws should remain on the Statute Book and the continuance of the repealing Law which violates the objective of Sharia would amount to acting in a manner repugnant to the Qur'an and Sunnah.
5. The objection is not sound since obviously the object of these laws was to rehabilitate and settle displaced persons. By their very nature these laws could not be permanent. It was for the Government to consider whether the stage had reached for withdrawing them. The Government has, therefore, acted within the scope of its authority by repealing them. The Act is not in any way repugnant to the Qur'an and Sunnah.