Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 13

13. Substituted vide Notification of the Pakistan Bar Council dated 16-11-2015. 13a. inserted vide Notification of the Pakistan Bar Council dated 08-09-2025. Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976 63 Explanation.--If any question arises whether an Advocate is or is not, for the purpose of this sub-rule, practicing generally in a Province or District 14[or in ICT], for the purpose of election of Pakistan Bar Council it shall be referred to the Attorney-General for Pakistan and for the purpose of election of the Provincial Bar Council 15[and Islamabad Bar Council] it shall be referred to the Advocate-General concerned, whose decision thereon shall be final}. 16 [(aa) "continuing candidate" means any candidate who is neither elected nor excluded from the poll at any given time]. 17[(b) “elected member” means member duly elected to the Pakistan Bar Council, a Provincial Bar Council or the Islamabad Bar Council, as the case may be.]

(c)"Election Tribunal" means:

(i)in relation to elections to a Provincial Bar Council 18[or Islamabad Bar Council] and its Vice-Chairman, a Judge of the High Court nominated by the Chief Justice of the High Court concerned; and

(ii)in relation to the elections to the Pakistan Bar Council and its Vice Chairman, a Judge of the Supreme Court nominated by the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

(d)"exhausted paper" means a ballot paper on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate; provided that a ballot paper shall also be deemed to have become exhausted whenever:

(a)the names of two or more candidates whether continuing or not, are marked with the same figure and are cast in order of preference; or

(b)the name of a candidate next in order of preference whether continuing or not is marked:

(i)by a figure not following consecutively after some other figure on the ballot paper; or

(ii)by two or more figures.

(e)"first preference" means the figure "1" set opposite the name of a candidate; "second preference" means the figure 19["2"] set opposite the name of a candidate; "third preference" means the figure 20[“3”] set opposite the name of a candidate and so on;