Frontier Crimes Regulation
| Frontier Crimes Regulation, 1901 | |
|---|---|
| Imperial Legislative Council | |
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| Citation | Regulation No. III of 1901 |
| Territorial extent | Federally Administered Tribal Area |
| Enacted by | Imperial Legislative Council |
| Repealed | 28 May 2018 |
| Repeals | |
| FATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018 | |
| Amended by | |
| The Frontier Crimes (Amendment) Regulation, 2011 (27 August 2011) | |
| Related legislation | |
| Tribal Areas Rewaj Act, Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan | |
| Status: Repealed | |
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The Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) were a special set of laws of British India, and which were applicable to the Tribal Areas. They were enacted by the British Empire in the nineteenth century and remained in effect in Pakistan until 2018. They were extended to the Gilgit Agency in Jammu and Kashmir in 1901 and to Baltistan in 1947, remaining in effect till the 1970s.
The law stated that three basic rights did not apply to the residents of FATA: appeal; wakeel; daleel; (right to challenge a conviction; right to legal representation; right to present reasoned evidence, respectively).
Following the passing of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan by both Houses of Parliament and the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, President Mamnoon Hussain abolished the FCR and replaced it with the FATA Interim Governance Regulation, 2018, which lays out the future for FATA being merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and placed FATA under direct federal administration, removing its semi-autonomous status.