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Supplement to Official Gazette

ARMED'FORCES· (SPECIAL PROVISI6NS) DECREE 1972 Decree No. 15 [15th January 1970] THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1.-(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Chapter III of the Constitution of the Federation and in the appropriate service law, where the ·supreme Military Council is satisfied that during the1period between 15th January 1966 and 15th January 1970 any member of the armed forces (a) was actively engaged in any hostile or subversive act or rebellion against the Federal Military Government ; or (b) was actively engaged in counselling, aiding or abett…