ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday re-promulgated 27 ordinances, leaving nine others, including the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), to lapse after expiry of their 120-day term.

Although 37 ordinances, including 29 promulgated by Gen (retd) Pervez Musharaf, were tabled in parliament on orders of the Supreme Court, only one of them – the National Command and Control Authority Ordinance – became an act.

Under Article 89 of the Constitution, the president can re-promulgate an ordinance on expiry. About the NRO, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said: ‘Nothing will happen; the caravan of life will move on.’

The re-promulgated ordinances are: The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority Ordinance; Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amdt) Ordinance; National Commission for Human Development (Amdt) Ordinance; Arbitration (International Investment Dispute) Ordinance; Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Ordinance; Police Order (Amendment) Ordinance; Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance; Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance; Federal Public Service Commission (Amendment) Ordinance; Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (Re-Organisation and Conversion) Ordinance; Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan Ordinance; Competition Ordinance; National Disaster Management Ordinance; Recognition and Enforcement (Arbitration Agreement and Foreign Arbitral Awards) Ordinance; Pakistan Penal Code (Third Amdt) Ordinance; Islamabad Consumers Protection (Amdt) Ordinance; Price Control and Prevention of Profiteering and Hoarding (Amdt) Ordinance and Trade Organisations Ordinance and the National Vocational and Technical Education Ordinance and the Patents (Amdt) Ordinance.