 The new Ordinance replaced British era criminal laws on bodily hurt and murder with sharia-compliant provisions, as demanded by the Shariat Appellate Bench of Pakistan's Supreme Court.The Criminal Procedure Code was also amended to give legal heirs of a murdered person to enter into compromise and accept "diyah" compensation, instead of demanding "qisas"-based retaliatory penalties for murder or bodily hurt.The democratically elected government of Nawaz Sharif, in 1997, replaced the Ordinance by enacting the "qisas" and "diyah" "sharia" provisions as the law, through an Act of its Parliament.