The cabinet on Monday on principle approved two proposals for keeping effective the ‘important’ ordinances promulgated during the martial law regimes.The ordinances promulgated between August 20, 1975 and April 9, 1979 and March 24, 1982 and November 10, 1996 were condoned through the nullification of the 5th and 7th amendments to the constitution by the Supreme Court.
Total 91 ordinances were passed during the first military regime while 81 during the second one.
The cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina approved the proposal placed by Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs.
Today’s decision will be endorsed through enactment of law at the parliament later, Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters after the meeting.
