Text of CPC Section 60

CPC Section 60. Property liable to attachment and sale in execution of decree.

(1) The following property is liable to attachment and sale in execution of a decree, namely, lands, houses or other buildings, goods, money, banknotes, cheques, bills of exchange, hundis, promissory notes, Government securities, bonds or other securities for money, debts, shares in a corporation and, save as hereinafter mentioned, all other saleable property, moveable or immoveable, belonging to the judgment-debtor, or over which, or the profits of which, he has a disposing power which he may exercise for his own benefit, whether the same be held in the name of the judgment-debtor or by another person in trust for him or on his behalf:

        Provided that the following particulars shall not be liable to such attachment or sale, namely:

• (a) the necessary wearing-apparel, cooking vessels, beds and bedding of the judgment-debtor, his wife and children, and such personal ornaments as, in accordance with religious usage, cannot be parted with by any woman;
• (b) tools of artisans, and, where the judgment-debtor is an agriculturist, his implements of husbandry and such cattle and seed-grain as may, in the opinion of the Court, be necessary to enable him to earn his livelihood as such, and such portion of agricultural produce or of any class of agricultural produce as may have been declared to be free from liability under the provisions of the next following section;
• (c) houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the land immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) belonging to an agriculturist and occupied by him;
• (d) books of account;
• (e) a mere right to sue for damages;
• (f) any right of personal service;
• (g) stipends and gratuities allowed to [pensioners of the Government], or payable out of any service family pension fund notified in the official Gazette by the Federal Government or the Provincial Government in this behalf, and political pensions;
• (h) the wages of labourers and domestic servants, whether payable in money or in kind;
• (i) salary to the extent of the first hundred rupees and one-half of the remainder:

Provided that where such salary is the salary of a servant of the State or a servant of a railway or local authority, and the whole or any part of the portion of such salary liable to attachment has been under attachment, whether continuously or intermittently for a total period of twenty-four months, such portion shall be exempt from attachment until the expiry of a further period of twelve months and, where such attachment has been made in execution of one and the same decree, shall be finally exempt from attachment in execution of that decree;

• (j) the pay and allowances of persons to whom the Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961 (XXXV of 1961) applies;
• (k) all compulsory deposits and other sums in or derived from any fund to which the Provident Funds Act, 1925 (XIX of 1925), for the time being applies in so far as they are declared by the said Act not to be liable to attachment;
• (l) any allowance forming part of the emoluments of any servant of the State or of any servant of a railway or local authority which the appropriate Government may by notification in the official Gazette declare to be exempt from attachment, and any subsistence grant or allowance made to any such servant while under suspension;
• (m) an expectancy of succession by survivorship or other merely contingent or possible right or interest;
• (n) a right to future maintenance;
• (o) any allowance declared by any Pakistan law to be exempt from liability to attachment or sale in execution of a decree; and,
• (p) Where the judgment-debtor is a person liable for the payment of land-revenue, any moveable property which, under any law for the time being applicable to him, is exempt from sale for the recovery of an arrear of such revenue.

Explanation 1:
The particulars mentioned in clauses (g), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (o) are exempt from attachment or sale whether before or after they are actually payable,and in the case of salary other than salary of a servant of the State or a servant of a railway or local authority the attachable portion thereof is exempt from attachment until it is actually payable.

Explanation 2:
In clauses (h) and (i), "salary" means the total monthly emoluments, excluding any allowance declared exempt from attachment under the provisions of clause (l), derived by a person from his employment whether on duty or on leave.

Explanation 3:
In clause (l) "appropriate Government" means—

(i) as respects any person in the service of the Federal Government, or any servant of railway or of a cantonment authority or of the port authority of a major port, the Federal Government;

(ii) as respects any other servant of the State or a servant of any local authority, the Provincial Government.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed—to exempt houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the lands immediately appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) from attachment or sale in execution of decrees for rent of any such house, building, site or land,