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PART XII
Title, Commencement and Repeal
265.
(1) This Constitution shall be known as the
Constitution of the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan.
(2) Subject to clauses (3) and (4), the
Constitution shall come into force on the
fourteenth day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and seventy three or on such earlier
day as the President may, by notification in
the official Gazette, appoint, in the
Constitution referred to as the "commencing
day."
(3) The Constitution shall, to the extent
necessary
(a) for the constitution of the first
Senate;
(b) for the first meeting of a House or a
joint sitting to be held;
(c) for the election of the President and
the Prime Minister to be held; and
(d) to enable any other thing to be done
which, for the purposes of the Constitution,
it is necessary to do before the commencing
day,
come into force upon the enactment of the
Constitution, but the person elected as
President or Prime Minister shall not enter
upon his office before the commencing day.
(4) Where by the Constitution a power is
conferred to make rules or to issue orders
with respect to the enforcement of any
provision thereof, or with respect to the
establishment of any Court or office, or the
appointment of any Judge or office there
under, or with respect to the person by
whom, or the time when, or the place where,
or the manner in which, anything is to be
done under any such provisions, then that
power may be exercised at any time between
the enactment of the Constitution and its
commencement.
266.
The Interim Constitution of the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan, together with the Acts
and President's Orders making omissions
from, additions to, modifications of, or
amendments in, that Constitution is hereby
repealed.
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