Members of Parliament and Provincial Assemblies (Exemption of Advisers from Disqualification) Act, 1976

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THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES 
(EXEMPTION OF ADVISERS FROM DISQUALIFICATION) 
ACT, 1976 
 
 
              
 
CONTENTS 
1.  Short title and commencement 
2.  Advisor to Governor not to be disqualified 
3.  Repeal 
 
 
 

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THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES 
(EXEMPTION OF ADVISERS FROM DISQUALIFICATION) 
ACT, 1976 
 
 1ACT No. XIX OF 1976  
 
           [18th April, 1976] 
 
An Act to declare the holders of the office of Adviser to the Governor not to be disqualified from 
being elected or chosen as, and from being a member of Parliament or a Provincial Assembly. 
 
 WHEREAS  p aragraph (d) of clause (1) of Article 63 read with Article 127 of the 
Constitution provides that a person holding any o ffice of profit in the service of Pakistan may be 
declared by law not to be disqualified from being elected or chosen as, and from being, a member of 
Parliament or a Provincial Assembly; 
 
 AND WHEREAS, it is expedient in the public interest to declare that persons holding the 
office of Adviser to a Governor during certain period shall not be disqualified from being elected or 
chosen as, and from being, a member of Parliament or a Provincial Assembly; 
 
 It is hereby enacted as follows:— 
 
 1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Members of 
Parliament and Provincial Assemblies (Exemption of Advisers from Disqualification) Act, 1976. 
  
 (2) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the thirty-first 
day of December, 1975. 
 
 2. Advisor to Governor not to be disqualified. It is hereby d eclared that any p erson 
holding the office of Adviser to the Governor of a Province during the period— 
 
(a)       that  an  Order  under  paragraph  (c)  of  clause  (2)  of  A rticle  232  of  the 
Constitution  is in  force whereby the  Federal  Government  has  assumed  to 
itself, or directed the Governor of a Province to assume on its behalf, all or 
any of the functions of the Government of that Province; or 
 
(b)       a Proclamation under Article 234 of the Constitution is in force; 
 
shall not be disqualified from being elected or chosen as, and from being, a member of 
Parliament or a Provincial Assembly. 
 
 3. [Repeal.] Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 
(XXVII of1981), s. 3 and Sch., 11. 
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1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gaz. of P., 1976, Ext., Pt. Ill, p. 308.