PakistanPK
Article 207 — Judge not to hold office of profit, etc. ................................ ....................... 118
279 words
Verbatim text
not—
(a) hold any other office of profit in the service of Pakistan
if his remuneration is thereby increased; or
(b) occupy any other position carrying the right to remu -
neration for the rendering of services.
(2) A person who has held office as a Judge of the Supreme
Court or of a High Court shall not hold any office of profit in the service
of Pakistan, not being a judicial or quasi -judicial office or the office of
Chief Election Commissioner or of Chairman or member of a Law
Commission or of Ch airman or member of the Council of Islamic
Ideology, before the expiration of two years after he has ceased to hold
that office.
(3) A person who has held office as a permanent Judge —
(a) of the Supreme Court, shall not plead or act in any court
or before an y authority in Pakistan;
1 Article 206 renumbered as clause (1) of that Article, by the Constitution (Fifth Amdt.) Act, 1976 (62 of
1976), s. 14, (w.e.f. the 13th September, 1976).
2 New clause (2) ad ded ibid.
(b) of a High Court, shall not plead or act in any court or
before any authority within its jurisdiction; and
(c) of the High Court of West Pakistan as it existed
immediately before the coming into force of the
Province of West Pakistan (Dissolution) Order, 1970,
shall not plead or act in any court or before any
authority within the jurisdiction of the principal seat of
that High Court or, as the case may be, the perma nent
bench of that High Court to which he was assigned.
208. Officers and servants of Courts
What this means
- The index files this text under article 207 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
- The index files it under the chapter heading “CHAPTER 4. – GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIN G TO THE — JUDICATURE”.
- The row is titled “Judge not to hold office of profit, etc. ................................ ....................... 118”.
- The passage runs to about 279 words.
- Read plainly, it mentions pay and pensions — it sets pay, salary, allowance or pension terms (the words used: “remuneration”).
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