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Meaning & Judicial Interpretation: (اردو مفہوم اور قانونی تشریح)

2012 PLD 681 SUPREME-COURT Judicial Precedent
Arts. 218(3) & 220Representation of the People Act (LXXXV of 1976), PreambleElection CommissionPower and responsibilitiesScope

Representation of the People Act, 1976, vested the Election Commission with the responsibilities and powers to regulate and check intra-party affairs and actions taken by candidates and parties in anticipation of and on Election Day; to resolve all election disputes; to declare the election void, and to award punishments for violating relevant election laws

Article 220 of the Constitution also directed the Federal and Provincial machinery to assist the Election Commission in fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities

Election Commission was entrusted with exclusive, broad and extensive powers to attend to all issues related directly and ancillary to the election process.

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Precedents & Case Laws citing "Power and responsibilities"

CLC 2009
2009-July-13

2009 C L C 1415

D.H.A. ESTATE AGENTS ASSOCIATION (REGISTERED) through President — Petitioner Versus PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORITY through Chairman and 2 others — Respondents

Court: Lahore
PLD 1982
Writ Petition No. 11636 of 1980, heard on 20th January, 1982.

P L D 1982 Lahore 290

AND 3 others‑Petitioners Versus PAKISTAN WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT

Court: r‑‑‑ S. 20 read‑ with Book of Financial Powers, 1977 ‑Award of Con tracts‑Book of Financial Powers delegates financial powers and intended to decentralise powers and responsibilities to be exercised by functionaries of Authority but does not place restrictions on 'powers of Authority itself‑Conditions ana limitations laid down by a delegator for exercise of delegated powers by delegatee‑Held, cannot operate so as to limit powers of delegator himself.‑Contract.
SCMR 2020
Decided on 4th December, 2019.

2020 S C M R 875

STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES — Appellant Versus BRADFORD JAMES ROBINSON — Respondent

Court: High Court of Australia*
YLR 2019
Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.S-131 of 2018, decided on 27th July, 2018.

2019 Y L R 228

ASLAM PERVAIZ and another — Applicants Versus TAMEER ALI and 7 others — Respondents

Court: Sindh (Larkana Bench)
CLD 2022
2022-August-25

2022 C L D 1540

FFCL MANAGEMENT STAFF PENSION FUND TRUST through Secretary — Petitioner Versus PRESIDENT OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD and another — Respondents

Court: Islamabad
PLD 2020
2018-June-29

P L D 2020 Lahore 858

Syed HUSSAIN HAIDER — Petitioner Versus GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore and others — Respondents

Court: High Court
PLC(CS) 2025
Civil P.L.A. No.454 of 2024, decided on 14th October, 2024.

2025 P L C (C

SALMA KHATOON and another Versus PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION through Chairman and 4 others

Court: Supreme Court (AJ&K)
PLC(CS)N 2019
Writ Petition No. 127600 of 2017, decided on 29th June, 2018.

2019 P L C (C

Syed HUSSAIN HAIDER Versus GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore and others

Court: Lahore High Court
PLC(CS) 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 579-K of 2021, decided on 4th June, 2025.

2026 P L C (C

MUHAMMAD ALI WASSAN Versus The PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN and another

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
SCMR 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 579-K of 2021, decided on 4th June, 2025.

2026 S C M R 692

MUHAMMAD ALI WASSAN — Petitioner Versus The PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN and another — Respondents

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan