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24th Amendment 2017

The Constitution (Twenty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2017

SENATE SECRETARIAT

Islamabad, the 24th December, 2017

Act No. XXXVIII of 2017

An Act further to amend the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

            WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

            It is hereby enacted as follows:—

  1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Constitution (Twenty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2017.

 (2) It shall come into force at once.

  1. Amendment of Article 51 of the Constitution.—In the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in Article 51 :

 (a) for clause (3), the following shall be substituted :–

“(3)      the seats in the National Assembly referred to in clause (1), except as provided in clause (4), shall be allocated to each Province, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Federal Capital as under:

  General Seats Women Seats Total Seats
Balochistan 16 4 20
Khyber Pkhtunkhwa 39 9 48
Punjab 141 33 174
Sindh 61 14 75
Federally Administered Tribal Areas 12 — 12
Federal Capital 3 — 3
Total 272 60 332”

(b) for clause (5), the following shall be substituted :

“(5)      Save as provided in clause (3) in respect of the Federally Administered Tribal Area, the seats in the National Assembly shall be allocated to each province and the Federal Capital on the basis of population in accordance with the last preceding census officially published :

            Provided that for purposes of the next general elections to be held in 2018 and bye-elections related thereto, the allocation shall be made on the basis of provisional results of the 2017 census which shall be published by the Federal Government.”.

                                                                                                            AMJED PERVEZ

Secretary

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