1[SECOND SCHEDULE
[Article 41 (3)]
Election of President
1. The 2[Election Commission of Pakistan] shall hold and conduct election to the office of
President, and 3[Chief Election Commissioner] shall be the Returning Officer for such election.
2. The 2[Election Commission of Pakistan] shall appoint Presiding Officers to preside at the
meeting of the members of MajliseShoora (Parliament) and at the meetings of the members of the
Provincial Assemblies.
3. The Chief Election Commissioner shall by public notification fix the time and place for
depositing nomination papers, holding a scrutiny, making withdrawals, if any, and holding the poll, if
necessary.
4. At any time before noon on the day fixed for nomination any member of the MajliseShoora
(Parliament) or of a Provincial Assembly may nominate for election as President a person qualified
for election as President by delivering to the Presiding Officer a nomination paper, signed by himself
as proposer and by another member of the Majlise Shoora (Parliament) or, as the case may be
Assembly as seconder, together with a statement signed by the person nominated that he concents to
the nomination:
Provided that no person shall subscribe, whether as proposer or as seconder, more than one
nomination paper at any one election.
5. The scrutiny shall be held by the Chief Election Commissioner at the time and place fixed by
him, and if after scrutiny only one person remains validly nominated, the Chief Election
Commissioner shall declare that person to be elected, or if more than one person remains validly
nominated, he shall announce, by public notification, the names of the persons validly nominated, to
be hereinafter called the candidates.
6. A candidate may withdraw his candidature at any time before noon on the day fixed for this
purpose by delivering a notice in writing under his hand to the Presiding Officer with whom his
nomination paper has been deposited, and a candidate who has given a notice of withdrawal of his
candidature under this paragraph shall not be allowed to cancel that notice.
7. If all but one of the candidates have withdrawn, that one shall be declared by the Chief
Election Commissioner to be elected.
8. If there is no withdrawal, or if, after withdrawals have taken place, two or more candidates are
left, the Chief Election Commissioner shall announce by Public notification the names of the
candidates, and their proposers and seconders, and shall proceed to hold a poll by secret ballot in
accordance with the provisions of the succeeding paragraphs.
1 Subs. by P. O. No. 14 of 1985, Art. 2 and Sch., for "Second Schedule."
2 Subs. by the Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 2012 (5 of 2012) s.10, for "Chief Election Commissioner".
3 Ins. ibid.
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