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Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
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[ (b) Prime Minister;]
(c) Speaker or Deputy Speaker;
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[ (d) Minister, Minister of State or Deputy Minister;]
(e) Judge of the Supreme Court;
(f) Comptroller and Auditor General;
(g) Election Commissioner;
(h) Member of a public service commission.
148. (1) A person elected or appointed to any office mentioned in the Third Schedule shall before entering
upon the office make and subscribe an oath or affirmation (in this article referred to as “an oath”) in
accordance with that Schedule.
Oaths of office
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(2) Where under this Constitution an oath is required to be administered by a specified person 103[ * * *],
it may be administered by such other person and at such place as may be designated by that person.
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[ (2A) If, within three days next after publication through official Gazette of the result of a general
election of members of Parliament under clause (3) of article 123, the person specified under the
Constitution for the purpose or such other person designated by that person for the purpose, is unable to, or
does not, administer oath to the newly elected members of Parliament, on any account, the Chief Election
Commissioner shall administer such oath within three days next thereafter, as if, he is the person specified
under the Constitution for the purpose.]
(3) Where under this Constitution a person is required to make an oath before he enters upon an office he
shall be deemed to have entered upon the office immediately after he makes the oath.
Saving for existing laws
149. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution all existing laws shall continue to have effect but may be
amended or repealed by law made under this Constitution.
Transitional and temporary
provisions
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[ 150. (1) The provisions set out in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution at the time of the
Commencement of this Constitution on the 16th day of December, 1972 shall have effect as transitional and
temporary provisions notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Constitution.
(2) In the period between the 7th day of March, 1971 and the date of commencement of this Constitution
on the 16th day of December, 1972, the historical speech delivered by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, the Father of the Nation, in the Racecourse Maidan, Dhaka on the 7th day of March, 1971, set out
in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, the telegram of the Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh
made by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation on the 26th day of March, 1971 set
out in the Sixth Schedule and the Proclamation of Independence of the Mujibnagar Government on the 10th
day of April, 1971 set out in the Seventh Schedule are the historical speech and instruments of the
independence and the struggle of freedom of Bangladesh which shall be deemed to be the transitional and
the temporary provision for the said period.]
Repeals
151. The following President's Orders are hereby repealed–
(a) The Laws Continuance Enforcement Order, made on 10th April, 1971;
(b) The Provisional Constitution of Bangladesh Order, 1972;
(c) The High Court of Bangladesh Order, 1972 (P.O. No. 5 of 1972);
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