ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committe on National Health Services on Thursday presented before the house a report on the bill suggesting that an old law regarding juvenile smoking be repealed as the new law covers all the relevant provisions of the old one.

Tabled by Senator Mushahidullah Khan on behalf of former minister for health Saira Afzal Tarar, the bill suggests that the West Pakistan Juvenile Smoking Ordinance 1956 be repealed.

The report stated that the bill was considered during a meeting of the committee in which of ficials of the Ministry of Law and Justice participated.

The committee was of the view that after the enactment of the Prohibition of Smoking Protection of NonSmokers Health Ordinance, 2002 the said law had lost its importance and now all relevant provisions were already covered in the said Ordinance.

The committee suggested that there was no need for retaining the old law due to which it was passed.

That there were fewer fines and punishments in the old law due to which there was ambiguity on the implementation of the laws.