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Election Laws
The constituency-delimitation, electoral-rolls, and reserved-seats laws that structure how federal elections are organized, though some have since been superseded by later election legislation.
Ask about this categoryDelimitation of Constituencies Act, 1974
ActA 1974 Act empowering the Election Commission of Pakistan to draw the boundaries of National Assembly, Provincial Assembly, and local government constituencies according to population and set procedural principles, while barring courts from reviewing its delimitation decisions.
Electoral Rolls Act, 1974 (Repeal by No.F.8 (9)/2017 dated 23-10-2017)
ActThis 1974 act (since repealed per its title, effective 2017) governed how electoral rolls for National and Provincial Assembly elections were prepared, revised, corrected, and kept confidential, with penalties for misusing electoral data.
National and Provincial Assemblies (Elections to Reserved Seats) Act, 1976
ActA 1976 law that set out how elections to women's and minority reserved seats in the National and Provincial Assemblies were conducted and disputed, but which was later repealed in its application by the Representation of the People Act, 1976 and largely superseded by subsequent election law.
Senate (Election) Act, 1975 (Repeal by No.F.8 (9)/2017 dated,23-10-2017)
ActA 1975 law that formerly governed the conduct of Pakistan's Senate elections -- nominations, polling, election petitions, and election-related offences -- but which was repealed in 2017 and is no longer in force.