(ii) the persons to be elected in accordance with law by the members of the Assembly to fill
the seats referred to in clause (2A) of Article 51,
and, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue until the fourteenth day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and seventyseven; and reference to 'total membership' of National Assembly in the
Constitution shall be construed accordingly;];
(b) the qualifications and disqualifications for being elected and being a member of the
first National Assembly shall, except in case of members filling casual vacancies 1[, or to
be elected to the additional seats referred to in clause (2A) of Article 51,] after the
commencing day, be the same as under the Interim Constitution of the Islamic Republic
of Pakistan:
Provided that no person holding an office of profit in the service of Pakistan shall continue to
be a member of the first National Assembly after the expiration of three months from the
commencing day.
(2) If a person referred to in paragraph (a) of clause (1) is, immediately before the commencing
day, also a member of a Provincial Assembly, he shall not take a seat in the National Assembly or the
Provincial Assembly until he resigns one of his seats.
(3) A casual vacancy in a seat in the first National Assembly, including a vacancy in a seat in
the National Assembly of Pakistan existing before the commencing day which was not filled before
that day, caused by reason of death or resignation of a member or consequent upon his incurring a
disqualification or ceasing to be a member as a result of the final decision of an election petition may
be filled in the same manner in which it would have been filled before the commencing day.
(4) A person referred to in paragraph (a) of clause (1) shall not sit or vote in the National
Assembly until he has made the oath prescribed by Article 65 and, if, without the leave of the
Speaker of the National Assembly granted on reasonable cause shown, he fails to make the oath
within twenty one days from the day of the first meeting of the Assembly, his seat shall become
vacant at the expiration of that period.
2272.
First 3[constitution of] Senate.__ 4*Notwithstanding anything contained
in the Constitution, but subject to 5[Article 63 and] Article 223,—
(a) the Senate shall, until the first National Assembly under Constitution continues in
existences, consist of fortyfive members and the provisions of Article 59 shall have
effect as if, in paragraph (a) of clause (1) thereof, for the word "fourteen" the word
"ten" and in paragraph (b) of that clause for the word "five" the word "three", were
substituted, and reference to "total membership" of the Senate in the Constitution shall be
construed accordingly;
1 Ins. by the Constitution (First Amdt.) Act, 1975 (17 of 1975), s. 9, (w.e.f. the 21st November, 1975).
2 Article 272 had, between the 9th June, 1973, and the 14th August, 1974, effect subject to the following modifications made by the Election to the Senate Order, 1973 (P.O. No. 8 of
1973), namely:
In the said Article, after clause (1), the following new clause shall be added, namely:
"(2) Until Parliament by law makes provision in that behalf, the President may, for the purpose of the due Constitution of, and election to, the Senate, by Order, make provision for any
of the matters referred to in—
(a) Paragraphs (d) and (e) of clause (1) of Article 63;
(b) Paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of Article 222�� and
(c) Article 225.".
3 Ins. by the Constitution (First Amdt.) Act, 1974 (33 of 1974), s. 16, (w.e.f. the 4th May, 1974).
4 The brackets and figure "(1)" omitted by the Constitution (Fourth Amdt.) Act. ,1975 (71 of 1975), s. 10, (w.e.f. 21st November, 1975).
5 Ins. ibid.
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