Islamabad: The Senate has provided its approval to a legislation for empowering the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to issue letters of administration as well as succession certificates, according to news sources. The act is expected to come into effect on the dates set by the government in its official notification.
A NARDA official said that the department is awaiting the official notification to operationalise the new mechanism – recently approved by both houses of the national legislature. Another official said that the law was originally meant for Islamabad but the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments were also planning to follow it.
NADRA will now issue succession certificates to legal heirs in case of an individual’s death, according to the family tree registered in the database. Under the new law, the authority will set up facilitation units to receive, process and verify applications to grant these documents. In case of any discrepancy, the unit can decline the applications to be refiled before the appropriate forum as per the regulations.
Additionally, NADRA is supposed
to manage an online portal to provide the updated records of succession
certificates and letters of administration issued under the new law.
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