Friday, January 25, 2013

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Paper I of LLb Part II CHAPTER 7Accounts not audited before commencing day.Continuance of taxes. Continuance of Proclamation of Emergency.

                                       Accounts not audited before commencing day.

278.The Auditor-General shall perform the same functions and exercise the same powers in relation to accounts which have not been completed or audited before the commencing day as, by virtue of the Constitution, he is empowered to perform or exercise in relation to other accounts, and Article 171
shall, with the necessary modifications, apply accordingly.

                                                 Continuance of  taxes.
279.Notwithstanding anything contained in the Constitution, all taxes and fees levied under any law in force immediately before the commencing day shall continue to be levied until they are varied or abolished by Act of the appropriate Legislature.

                               Continuance of Proclamation of Emergency.
280.The Proclamation of Emergency issued on the twenty-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventy one shall be deemed to be a Proclamation of Emergency
issued under Article 232, and for the purposes of clause (7) and clause (8) thereof to have been issued on the commencing day, and any law, rule or order made or purporting to have been made in pursuance of that Proclamation shall be deemed to have been validly made [and shall not be called in question in any Court on the ground of inconsistency with any of the rights conferred by Chapter I  of Part II.]

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