Constitution 1973 § Article 224A — Resolution by Committee or Election Commission

Statutory text (English)

(1) In case the Prime Minister
and the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing National Assembly do not agree on any person to be
appointed as the care-taker Prime Minister, within three days of the dissolution of the National
Assembly, they shall forward two nominees each to a Committee to be immediately constituted by the
Speaker of the National Assembly, comprising eight members of the outgoing National Assembly, or
the Senate, or both, having equal representation from the Treasury and the Opposition, to be nominated
by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition respectively.

(2) In case a Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Provincial
Assembly do not agree on any person to be appointed as the care-taker Chief Minister, within three
days of the dissolution of that Assembly, they shall forward two nominees each to a Committee to be
immediately constituted by the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, comprising six members of the
outgoing Provincial Assembly having equal representation from the Treasury and the Opposition, to
be nominated by the Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition respectively.

(3) The Committee constituted under clause

(1) or

(2) shall finalize the name of the care-taker
Prime Minister or care-taker Chief Minister, as the case may be, within three days of the referral of the
matter to it:

Provided that in case of inability of the Committee to decide the matter in the aforesaid period,
the names of the nominees shall be referred to the Election Commission of Pakistan for final decision
within two days.

(4) The incumbent Prime Minister and the incumbent Chief Minister shall continue to hold
office till appointment of the care-taker Prime Minister and the care-taker Chief Minister, as the case
may be.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses

(1) and

(2), if the members of the Opposition
are less than five in the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) and less than four in any Provincial Assembly,
then all of them shall be members of the Committee mentioned in the aforesaid clauses and the
Committee shall be deemed to be duly constituted.]

Source and verification

Source citation: Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, Art. 224A: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN' (incl. 26th Amdt Act 2024 & 27th Amdt Act 2025), p. 113, 114, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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