(4) In addition to the number of seats referred to in clause (3), there shall be, in the National
Assembly, ten seats reserved for non Muslims.
(5) The seats in the National Assembly shall be allocated to each Province, the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas and the Federal Capital on the basis of population in accordance with the
last preceding census officially published.
(6) For the purpose of election to the National Assembly,—
(a) the constituencies for the general seats shall be single member territorial constituencies
and the members to fill such seats shall be elected by direct and free vote in accordance
with law;
(b) each Province shall be a single constituency for all seats reserved for women which are
allocated to the respective Provinces under clause (3);
(c) the constituency for all seats reserved for nonMuslims shall be the whole country;
(d) members to the seats reserved for women which are allocated to a Province under clause
(3) shall be elected in accordance with law through proportional representation system of
political parties' lists of candidates on the basis of total number of general seats secured
by each political party from the Province concerned in the National Assembly:
Provided that for the purpose of this paragraph the total number of general seats won by a
political party shall include the independent returned candidate or candidates who may
duly join such political party within three days of the publication in the official Gazette of
the names of the returned candidates; and
(e) members to the seats reserved for nonMuslims shall be elected in accordance with law
through proportional representation system of political parties' lists of candidates on the
basis of total number of general seats won by each political party in the National
Assembly:
Provided that for the purpose of this paragraph the total number of general seats won by a
political party shall include the independent returned candidate or candidates who may
duly join such political party within three days of the publication in the official Gazette of
the names of the returned candidates.]
52. Duration of National Assembly. The National Assembly shall, unless sooner dissolved,
continue for a term of five years from the day of its first meeting and shall stand dissolved at the
expiration of its term.
53. Speaker and Deputy Speaker of National Assembly. (1) After a general election, the
National Assembly shall, at its first meeting and to the exclusion of any other business, elect from
amongst its members a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker and, so often as the office of Speaker or
Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the Assembly shall elect another member as Speaker or, as the case
may be, Deputy Speaker.
(2) Before entering upon office, a member elected as Speaker or Deputy Speaker shall make
before the National Assembly oath in the form set out in the Third Schedule.
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