Provided that the caretaker Prime Minister shall be 1[appointed] by the President in consultation
with the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing National Assembly, and a
caretaker Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor in consultation with the Chief Minister
and the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Provincial Assembly:
2[Provided further that if the Prime Minister or a Chief Minister and their respective Leader of
the Opposition do not agree on any person to be appointed as a caretaker Prime Minister or the care
taker Chief Minister, as the case may be, the provisions of Article 224A shall be followed:]
Provided 3[also] that the Members of the Federal and Provincial caretaker Cabinets shall be
appointed on the advice of the caretaker Prime Minister or the caretaker Chief Minister, as the case
may be.
(1B) Members of the caretaker Cabinets including the caretaker Prime Minister and the care
taker Chief Minister and their immediate family members shall not be eligible to contest the
immediately following elections to such Assemblies.
Explanation.__ In this clause “immediate family members” means spouse and children.]
(2) When the National Assembly or a Provincial Assembly is dissolved, a general election to the
Assembly shall be held within a period of ninety days after the dissolution, and the results of the
election shall be declared not later than fourteen days after the conclusion of the polls.
(3) An election to fill the seats in the Senate which are to become vacant on the expiration of the
term of the members of the Senate shall be held not earlier than thirty days immediately preceding the
day on which the vacancies are due to occur.
(4) When, except by dissolution of the National Assembly or a Provincial Assembly, a 4* seat in
any such Assembly has become vacant not later than one hundred and twenty days before the term of
that Assembly is due to expire, an election to fill the seat shall be held within sixty days from the
occurrence of the vacancy.
(5) When a seat in the Senate has become vacant, an election to fill the seat shall be held within
thirty days from the occurrence of the vacancy.
5[(6) When a seat reserved for women or nonMuslims in the National Assembly or a Provincial
Assembly falls vacant, on account of death, resignation or disqualification of a member, it shall be
filled by the next person in order of precedence from the party list of the candidates to be submitted
to the Election Commission by the political party whose member has vacated such seat.6[;]];
7[Provided that if at any time the party list is exhausted, the concerned political party may submit
a name for any vacancy which may occur thereafter.]
1 Subs, by the Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 2012 (5 of 2012), s.8, for "Selected".
2 New Proviso ins. ibid.
3 Subs. ibid., for "further".
4 The word "general"omitted by Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), s. 2.
5 New clause (6) ins. and shall be deemed always to havce been so ins. with effect from the 21st day of August 2002, ibid., s. 83.
6 Subs. by the Constitiution (Twentieth Amdt.), Act, 2012 (5 of 2012), s. 8, for fullstop.
7 Proviso added ibid.
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