the Provincial Government shall have power to authorize expenditure from the Provincial
Consolidated Fund, whether the expenditure is charged by the Constitution upon that Fund or not,
and shall cause to be laid before the Provincial Assembly a Supplementary Budget Statement or, as
the case may be, an Excess Budget Statement, setting out the amount of that expenditure, and the
provisions of Articles 120 to 123 shall apply to those statements as they apply to the Annual Budget
Statement.
125. Votes on account. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions relating
to financial matters, the Provincial Assembly shall have power to make any grant in advance in
respect
of
the
estimated
expenditure
for
a
part
of
any
financial year, not exceeding three months, pending completion of the procedure prescribed in Article
122 for the voting of such grant and the authentication of the schedule of expenditure in accordance
with the provisions of Article 123 in relation to the expenditure.
126. Power to authorize expenditure when Assembly stands dissolved. Notwithstanding
anything contained in the foregoing provisions relating to financial matters, at any time when the
Provincial Assembly stands dissolved, the Provincial Government may authorize expenditure from
the Provincial Consolidated Fund in respect of the estimated expenditure for a period not exceeding
four months in any financial year, pending completion of the procedure prescribed in Article 122 for
the voting of grants and the authentication of the schedule of authorized expenditure, in accordance
with the provisions of Article 123 in relation to the expenditure.
127. Provisions relating to National Assembly, etc., to apply to Provincial Assembly, etc.
Subject to the Constitution, the provisions of clauses (2) to (8) of Article 53, clauses (2) and (3) of
Article 54, Article 55, Articles 63 to 67, Article 69, Article 77, Article 87 and Article 88 shall apply to
and in relation to a Provincial Assembly or a committee or members thereof or the Provincial
Government, but so that—
(a) any reference in those provisions to 1[MajliseShoora (Parliament)], a House or the
National Assembly shall be read as a reference to the Provincial Assembly ;
(b) any reference in those provisions to the President shall be read as a reference to the
Governor of the Province;
(c) any reference in those provisions to the Federal Government shall be read as a
reference to the Provincial Government ;
(d) any reference in those provisions to the Prime Minister shall be read as a reference to
the Chief Minister ;
(e) any reference in those provisions to a Federal Minister shall be read as a reference to a
Provincial Minister ; 2*
(f) any reference in those provisions to the National Assembly of Pakistan shall be read as a
reference to the Provincial Assembly in existence immediately before the commencing
day 3[; and]
4[(g) the said clause (2) of Article 54 shall have effect as if, in the proviso thereto, for the
words "one hundred and thirty" the words "5[one hundred]" were substituted.]
1 Subs. by the Revival of the Constitution of 1973 Order, 1985 (P.O. No. 14 of 1985), Art. 2 and Sch., for "Parliament".
2 The word "and" omitted by the Constitution (First Amdt.) Act, 1974 (33 of 1974), s.7 (w.e.f the 4th May,1974).
3 Subs. ibid., s. 7, for the full stop.
4 Paragraph (g) added ibid.
5 Subs. by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), s. 40, for "seventy".
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