Pakistan Law

asked

{
 "tool": "answer_question",
 "question": "What is the punishment for theft?",
 "as_of": "2018-01-01"
}

what came back

Section 14 OAPEH - Punishment for theft liable to tazir
  in force from 1979-02-10 (still in force)
  matched 2 of 2 terms — theft (11.89), punishment (7.57)
  Whoever commits theft liable to tazir shall be awarded the punishment provided for the offence of theft in the Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860).

Section 379 PPC - Punishment for theft
  in force from 1860-10-06 (still in force)
  matched 2 of 2 terms — theft (11.53), punishment (7.10)
  Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine or with both.

3 passage(s) returned, ranked. Each carries the window it was in force and the question terms it matched.

asked something the corpus does not hold

{
 "tool": "answer_question",
 "question": "How is cryptocurrency taxed?",
 "as_of": "2024-01-01"
}

what came back

{
 "refused": true,
 "refusal_status": "subject_not_in_corpus",
 "passages": 0,
 "refusal_reason": "no provision in this corpus contains a word the question turns on, in any form: 'cryptocurrency' appears in no provision here. The nearest is Section 5A IMFIB. If one of those words is what the question is about, this corpus does not hold it; if it is incidental, rephrase in the statute's own words."
}

It names the word it could not find rather than returning the nearest thing it has.

checked the citations in a draft

{
 "tool": "check_citations",
 "text": "Relying on section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and section 420 PPC.",
 "as_of": "2024-01-01"
}

what came back

{
 "citations": [
  {
   "citation": "Section 302 (Indian Penal Code)",
   "status": "act_not_recognised",
   "note": "the text names 'Indian Penal Code', which is not an Act this corpus knows; it was not read as a Pakistani provision of the same number"
  },
  {
   "citation": "Section 420 PPC",
   "status": "in_force",
   "heading": "Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property"
  }
 ],
 "counts": {
  "act_not_recognised": 1,
  "in_force": 1
 },
 "verdict": "problems"
}

A foreign code is not read as the local Act of the same number.

asked for one provision's history

{
 "tool": "provision_history",
 "citation": "Section 8 AGRIC"
}

what came back

{
 "versions": 1,
 "history": [
  {
   "from": "1958-09-23",
   "to": "2011-05-31",
   "manner": "repealed",
   "amended_by": "Act XIV of 2011",
   "superseded_by": "",
   "heading": "Sanction for prosecution under this Act"
  }
 ],
 "currently_in_force": false
}