Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 — section 16

16. Filling of casual vacancies..—If the seat of a member of a Bar Council becomes vacant during the term of office of the Council,

(a)In case of the Pakistan Bar Council, the vacancy shall be filled by the person who received in the last elections from the same province the highest number of single transferable votes next after the member, the vacancy in whose seat is to be filled or if there be no such person then the vacancy shall be filled by a person elected in accordance with the provisions of Section 11;

(b)in the case of a Provincial Bar Council [and Islamabad Bar Council], the vacancy shall be filled by the person who received, in the same election and from the same district or, as the case may be, group of districts, the highest number of votes next after the member the vacancy in whose seat is to be filled, or if there be no such person, by a person eligible for election to that Council from the same districts or, as the case may be, group of districts, who is co-opted by the Provincial Bar council] [and Islamabad Bar Council].