ISLAMABAD, April 6: The president has promulgated the Removal from Service (Special Powers) Amendment Ordinance-2002.

Through the ordinance, in the Removal from Service (Special Powers) Ordinance, 2000 (XVII of 2000), in section 9, sub-section (2), the words “within 60 days thereof” shall be omitted.

In section 10, for the full stop at the end a colon shall be substituted and the following proviso shall be added: “Provided that where a representation or review petition has been preferred under section 9 but no decision has been received by, or communicated to, the applicant or, as the case may be, the petitioner, within a period of 60 days of its submission to the prescribed authority, he may prefer appeal to the Service Tribunal within 30 days of the expiry of the aforesaid period.”—APP