Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 217

217. Insert vide Notification of the Pakistan Bar Council dated 16-11-2015 219a. Added vide Notification dated 28-10-2024 of Pakistan Bar Council 116 Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976 175-K. Right of vote: 218[(a) No member of a Bar Association shall have a right of vote in election unless he/she has completed at least six months of his being member of the Bar Association concerned. However, in case of transfer of name of a voter/member from one Bar Association to another, the transferee member/voter will be eligible to cast his/her vote in election of the Bar Association [and Bar Council] to which he/she gets his/her name transferred, only after expiry of two years of such transfer.] 220a[(aa) (i). While preparing final list of eligible voters under rule 175-J of the Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976, the President and Secretary of each Bar Association shall hear and decide the objections within two (02) days, if any, regarding inclusion/exclusion of name/names of an advocate/advocates in the list of eligible voters who has have joined other profession, business, vocation, service (government or private) or for any other reasons has/have discontinued his/their law practice. 220c[(a1) In case of transfer of place of practice of voter membership within the same District for the purpose of Rule 6 his/her period of membership of Provincial Bar Councils shall also be counted/considered as valid and in case of transfer of place of practice as voter membership from one District to another District, the period of membership of previous Bar Association shall not be counted.]

(ii). If eligibility of an advocate of the High Court or subordinate courts, is challenged on any ground specified in the preceding clause, the concerned Bar Association or the Provincial Bar Council shall not exclude his name from list of eligible voters, if he furnishes attested copies of Vakalatnama/power of attorney and order sheets showing his/her appearance in cases including bail applications independently conducted during the preceding year as per the following schedule: