Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 — section 7

7. Time of holding elections to a Provincial Bar Council [and Islamabad Bar Council]..—Elections to a Provincial Bar Council [and Islamabad Bar Council] shall be held 73a[on the first Saturday] of November in the year in which the term of the Provincial Bar Council [and Islamabad Bar Council] expires: Provided that

(a)elections to the first Provincial Bar Councils to be constituted under this Act shall be held so as to conclude; and

(b)the first Provincial Bar Councils to be constituted under this Act shall be constituted, on such day as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify; [Provided further that elections to the first Islamabad Bar Council to be constituted under this Act shall be held so as to conclude; and the first Islamabad Bar Council to be constituted under this Act shall be constituted, on such day as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify] [Provided also that irrespective of expiry of term of the Provincial Bar Councils and Islamabad Bar Council, the next election of the said Bar Councils shall be held before the 31st day of December, 2020] 73a[Provided also that in case the election cannot be held on the second Saturday of November of the same year.]