Provided that no such Order shall be made after the first meeting of the National Assembly constituted after the first general election held for the purposes of that Assembly.
(2) Every Order under this Article shall be laid before the National Assembly and may be amended or repealed by Act of Parliament.
FIRST SCHEDULE
(Articles 32 and 33)
Election of President
1. The Chief Election Commissioner shall hold and conduct any election to the office of President, and shall be the Returning Officer for such election.
2. The Chief Election Commissioner shall appoint Presiding Officers to preside at the meeting of the members of the National Assembly, which shall be held at Karachi, and at the meetings of the members of the Provincial Assemblies of East Pakistan and West Pakistan, which shall be held at Dacca and Lahore, respectively.
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 National Assembly or of a Provincial Assembly may nominate for election as President a person qualified for elections as President by delivering to the Presiding Officer of the Assembly of which he is a member, a nomination pa per, signed by himself as proposer and by another member of that Assembly as seconder, together with a statement signed by the person nominated that he consents to the nomination:
Provided that no person shall subscribe, whether as proposer or as seconder more than one nomination paper at anyone 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 name, 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 If all but one of the candidates have withdrawn, that one shall be declared by the Chief Election Commissioner to be elected.
