Article: 127 Provisions relating to National Assembly, etc., to apply to Provincial Assembly etc..
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[Majlis-e-Shoora (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 word 5[“seventy”] were substituted.] _________________________________________________________________________________
Footnotes:
1. See Footnote 2 on page 4.
2. Section 7(a) of the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1974 (33 of 1974) omitted the conjunction “and” at the end of paragraph (e) of Art. 127, (w.e.f. May 4, 1974).
3. Section 7(b) of the Constitution (First Amendment) Act 1974, (33 of 1974), substituted the semi-colon and conjunction “and” for the full-stop, at the end of paragraph (f) of Art. 127, (w.e.f. May 4, 1974).
4. Section 7(c) of the Constitution (First Amendment) Act 1974 (33 of 1974), added paragraph (g) to Art. 127. (w.e.f. May 4, 1974).
5. Section 40 of the Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), substituted the said words, in place of the word “seventy”, in paragraph (g) of Art. 127, (w.e.f. April 19, 2010).
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Constitution of Pakistan 1956 :
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Constitution of India 1950:
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Government of India Act 1935:
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Leading & Latest Cases on Article 127 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 :
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BADAR IQBAL
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SPEAKER SINDH PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY AND OTHERS
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SYED MASROOR AHSAN AND OTHERS
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AEDESHIR COW ASJEE AND OTHERS
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ASIF ALI ZARDARI
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FEDRATION OF PAKISTAN AND OTHERS
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SARDAR FATEH ALI KHAN UMRANI
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CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN AND THREE OTHERS
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syed JALAL MEHMOOD SHAH AND ANOTHER
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FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN
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