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COMMITTEES

 

A – Standing Committees

 

148.     Standing Committees.– [1][(1) In addition to the Standing Committees constituted under rules 176, 180, 182, 183 and 185, there shall be elected by the Assembly after a general election the following Standing Committees for the duration of the Assembly for the departments noted against each:

 

Sr #

Name of the Committee

Department

1.

Standing Committee on Agriculture

Agriculture

2.

Standing Committee on Auqaf and Religious Affairs

Auqaf and Religious Affairs

3.

Standing Committee on Chief Minister’s Inspection Team

Chief Minister’s Inspection Team

4.

Standing Committee on Colonies

Colonies

5.

Standing Committee on Communications and Works

Communications and Works

6

Standing Committee on Cooperatives

Cooperatives

[2][7.

Standing Committee on Higher Education

Higher Education

7A.

Standing Committee on School Education

School Education]

8.

Standing Committee on Environment Protection

Environment Protection

9.

Standing Committee on Excise and Taxation

Excise and Taxation

10.

Standing Committee on Finance

Finance

11.

Standing Committee on Food

Food

12.

Standing Committee on Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries

Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries

[3][13.

Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Healthcare

Primary and Secondary Healthcare

13A.

Standing Committee on Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education

Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education]

14.

Standing Committee on Home Affairs

Home

15.

Standing Committee on Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering

Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering

16.

Standing Committee on Human Rights

Human Rights and Minorities Affairs

17.

Standing Committee on Industries, Commerce and Investment

Industries, Commerce and Investment

18.

Standing Committee on Information and Culture

Information and Culture

[4][19.

Standing Committee on Irrigation

Irrigation

19A.

Standing Committee on Energy

Energy]

20.

Standing Committee on Labour and Human Resource

Labour and Human Resource

[5][21.

Standing Committee on Law

Law and Parliamentary Affairs

21A.

Standing Committee on Public Prosecution

Public Prosecution]

22.

Standing Committee on Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education

Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education

23.

Standing Committee on Livestock and Dairy Development

Livestock and Dairy Development

24.

Standing Committee on Local Government and Community Development

Local Government and Community Development

25.

Standing Committee on Management and Professional Development

Management and Professional Development

26.

Standing Committee on Mines and Minerals

Mines and Minerals

27.

Standing Committee on Planning and Development

Planning and Development

28.

Standing Committee on Population Welfare

Population Welfare

29.

Standing Committee on Revenue, Relief and Consolidation

(i) Revenue

(ii)        Consolidation and Holdings

(iii)  Relief and Crisis Management

30.

Standing Committee on Services and General Administration

Services and General Administration

31.

Standing Committee on Social Welfare and Bait-ul-Maal

Social Welfare and Bait-ul-Maal

32.

Standing Committee on Special Education

Special Education

33.

Standing Committee on Transport

Transport

34.

Standing Committee on Gender Mainstreaming

Women Development

35.

Standing Committee on Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology and Tourism

Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology and Tourism

36.

Standing Committee on Zakat and Ushr

Zakat and Ushr]

 

 

 

            (2)        Except as otherwise provided in these rules, a Committee shall only deal with a matter which may be referred to it by the Assembly.

 

 

 

[6][(3) The Speaker may, in consultation with Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs and Leader of Opposition, change the name of the Committee and the Department assigned to a Committee in order to bring this rule in accord with the Departments reflected in the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011 by notification in the official Gazette.]

 

 

 

149.   Composition of Standing Committees.– (1) Each Standing Committee shall consist of [7][eleven] members to be elected by the Assembly.

 

            (2)        The Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary concerned shall be ex-officio members of the Committee.

 

            (3)        The member-in-charge of the Bill, and in the case of any other matter referred by the Assembly to the Standing Committee, the member who has proposed the subject or matter for reference to, or study by, the Committee, may attend the meetings of the Committee but shall not vote unless he is an elected member of the Committee.

 

            (4)        The Secretary of the Department concerned and the Secretary of the Law & Parliamentary Affairs Department or an officer designated by each of them in this behalf shall attend the meeting of a Committee as expert advisers.

 

 

 

150.     Method of election.– (l) Unless otherwise provided in these rules, members of all the Committees shall be elected, as far as possible, in accordance with the agreement of the Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition and in the absence of a Leader, his Deputy.

 

            (2)        In case there is no agreement mentioned in sub-rule (1), the members of each Committee shall be elected by the Assembly from amongst its members according to the principle of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Fifth Schedule.

 

[8][(3) The Committees shall be elected by the Assembly within ninety days after the election of the Leader of the House following the general election.

 

(4) After the election of the Committees, if any change in the membership of a Committee is necessitated, the Speaker shall, in consultation with the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs on behalf of the Leader of the House and Leader of Opposition, change the membership of any one or more Committees.]

 

 

 

151.     Chairman of a Committee.– (1) The Chairman of a Committee shall be elected by the Committee from amongst the members of the Committee.

 

            (2)        If the Chairman is absent from a sitting, the Committee shall choose one of its members present to act as Chairman for that sitting.

 

[9][(3) The election for the Chairman of a Committee shall be held within a period of thirty days from the date of the election of the Committee or from the date of vacancy in the office of the Chairman.]

 

 

 

152.     Resignation.– (1) A member may resign his membership of the Committee by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker.

 

            (2)        The Chairman of a Committee may resign as such by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker.

 

 

 

153.     Casual vacancies.– (1) Casual vacancies in a Committee shall be filled, as soon as possible after such vacancies occur, in the manner provided in rule 150 or, as the case may be, in rule 151.

 

            (2)        A member elected under sub-rule (1), shall hold office for the period for which the member in whose place he is elected would have held office.

 

            (3)        Subject to the requirement of a quorum, a Committee shall have power to act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership.

 

 

 

154.     Functions of Committees.– (l) A Committee shall examine a Bill or other matter referred to it by the Assembly and shall submit its report to the Assembly with such recommendations, including suggestion for legislation, if any, as it may deem necessary.

 

            (2)        In the case of a Bill, the Committee shall also examine whether or not the Bill violates, disregards or is otherwise not in accordance with the Constitution.

 

            (3)        The Committee may propose such amendments as are within the scope of the Bill, but the Committee shall have no power of preventing the Bill from being considered by the Assembly.

 

            (4)        The amendments will be shown in its report along with the original provisions of the Bill.

 

            (5)        A Committee may, with the approval of the Speaker, appoint a sub-committee, for a specified function arising out of the matter referred to the Committee.

 

            (6)        If a Committee does not present its report within the specified period, or within the extended period, if any, the Bill or the matter referred to it may, on a motion by a member, or a Minister, be considered by the Assembly without waiting for the report.

 

 

 

155.     Reference to Committees.– The Assembly may, on a motion made by a member, remit to the Committee concerned any subject or matter which may be studied by that Committee.

 

 

 

156.     Sittings of Committees.– (1) Subject to sub-rule (2), a sitting of a Committee shall be held on such day and at such hour as the Chairman of the Committee, in consultation with the Secretary, may determine.

 

            (2)        If the Chairman of a Committee is not readily available, the Secretary may fix the date and time of a sitting:

 

            Provided that the sitting of a Committee for election of its Chairman shall be fixed by the Secretary in consultation with the Speaker.

 

            (3)        Subject to sub-rules (4) and (5), the sittings of a Committee shall, so far as possible, continue from day to day till the completion of the business assigned to it.

 

            (4)        A Committee shall not sit for more than two times in a month except with the prior written approval of the Speaker.

 

            (5)        Unless otherwise permitted by the Speaker, the sittings of the House Committee and the Library Committee shall be held during a session.

 

            (6)        The sittings of the Committees shall be held at Lahore.

 

            (7)        On a requisition made by three members of the Committee, the Chairman shall call a sitting of the Committee within twenty-one days from the date of the receipt of the requisition if some Bill or matter referred to it is pending.[10]

 

 

 

157. Sittings of Committees while the Assembly is sitting.– (1) A Committee may not meet while the Assembly is sitting except with the approval of the Speaker.

 

            (2)        If a Committee is sitting while the Assembly is also sitting, the Chairman of the Committee shall, if a Division is being called in the Assembly, suspend the proceedings of the Committee for such time as will, in his opinion, enable the members to vote in the Division.

 

 

 

158. Sittings in camera.– The sittings of a Committee shall be held in private unless the Committee, by a majority, decides otherwise.

 

 

 

159. Quorum.– (1) The quorum for the election of the Chairman of a Committee shall be the majority of the elected members thereof.

 

            (2)        Subject to sub-rule (1), the quorum for a sitting of a Committee shall be [11][four] elected members:

 

            [12][Provided that the quorum for a sitting of a Public Accounts Committee or Committee on Privileges shall be [13][six] elected members.]

 

 

 

160. Voting.– (1) Subject to rule 159, all questions at a sitting of a Committee shall be determined by the majority of its elected members present and voting.

 

            (2)        The Chairman or the member presiding in his absence shall not vote except in the event of equality of votes.

 

 

 

161. Power of Committees to examine Government officials and record.– (1) A Committee shall have power to summon and examine any person and the records of the Government and of statutory bodies, autonomous or semi-autonomous, under the Government:

 

            Provided that a Committee shall have no power to send for any paper or record relating to a proposed taxation.

 

            (2) When a Department is of the opinion that in the interest of security of State or the maintenance of public order or generally in the public interest or on account of any other sufficient reason, any particular record summoned from any office of or authority under the Government or set up or established by the Government should not be furnished to any Committee or a person in the service of the State should not be summoned or compelled to give evidence, the Department may claim privilege for that record or exemption for the public servant, as the case may be:

 

            Provided that in such case the Committee may, through the Speaker, obtain orders of the Governor whether the privilege or exemption, as the case may be, has been properly claimed and the orders of the Governor in this behalf shall be final.

 

 

 

162. Evidence, report and proceedings treated confidential.– (1) A Committee may direct that the whole or a part of the evidence or a summary thereof may be laid on the Table. If the Committee so decides, the Speaker may direct that such evidence be confidentially made available to members before it is formally laid on the Table.

 

            (2)        The part of the evidence, oral or written, report or proceedings of the Committee, which has not been laid on the Table, shall not be open to inspection by any one except under the authority of the Speaker.

 

            (3)        The evidence given before a Committee shall not be published by any member of the Committee or by any other person until it has been laid on the Table.

 

 

 

163. Views of the Departments on private member’s Bills.– In case of a private member’s Bill referred to a Committee, the Secretary shall transmit a copy of the Bill to the Department concerned with a request for an expression of the views of the Department.

 

 

 

164. Record of the proceedings of Committees.– (1) A summary of the record of the proceedings of each Committee shall be maintained.

 

            (2)        The summary of evidence tendered before a Committee shall be made available to a member of the Committee concerned if so requested by him.

 

 

 

165. Special reports.– A Committee may, if it thinks fit, make a special report on any matter that arises or comes to light in the course of its work which it may consider necessary to bring to the notice of the Speaker or the Assembly.

 

 

 

166. Reports of Committees.– (1) The report of a Committee shall be presented within the limit fixed by the Speaker under rule 94 or within thirty days from the date on which reference was made to it by the Assembly unless the Assembly, on a motion being made, directs that the time for presentation of the report be extended to a date specified in the motion.

 

            (2)        The report shall–

 

             (a)       incorporate the views of the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary concerned, if furnished;

 

             (b)      set forth the recommendations of the Committee together with the views of the minority, if any; and

 

             (c)       be signed by the Chairman on behalf of the Committee or, if the Chairman is absent or is not readily available, by any other member of the Committee.

 

[14][(3) If the Assembly is not in session and the period of presentation of the report under sub-rule (1) has expired or is about to expire and the Committee is yet to finish its work, the Speaker may grant a special permission to the Committee to hold not more than one meeting beyond the period specified in sub-rule (1).

 

 

 

167. Presentation of report.– (1) The report of a Committee shall be presented to the Assembly by the Chairman or, in his absence, by any other member of the Committee or by the member-in-charge.

 

            (2)        The Secretary shall cause every report of the Committee together with the views of the minority, if any, to be printed and a copy thereof made available to members.

 

 

 

168. Agenda and notices of the meetings.– (1) The arrangement of business of a Committee and the agenda for a meeting of the Committee shall be determined by the Secretary in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee, if readily available.

 

            (2)        Notices of all meetings of a Committee shall be sent to the members of the Committee and to the Advocate-General if he is named as a member of the Committee or if his presence is required by the Committee.

 

 

 

169. Decision of Speaker on procedure.– If any doubt arises on any point of procedure or interpretation of the rules, the Chairman may, if he thinks fit, refer the point to the Speaker whose decision shall be final.

 

 

 

170. Business before Committees not to lapse on prorogation of Assembly.– Any business pending before a Committee shall not lapse by reason only of the prorogation of the Assembly and the Committee shall continue to function notwithstanding such prorogation.

 

 

 

171. Unfinished work of Committees.– (1) A Committee, which is unable to complete its work before the expiration of its term or before the expiration of the term of the Assembly, may report to the Assembly that the Committee has not been able to complete its work. Any report, memorandum or note that the Committee may have prepared, or any evidence that the Committee may have taken, shall be transmitted to the Secretary, who shall make it available to the Committee that succeeds it.

 

            (2)        Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, a Public Accounts Committee may proceed from the stage where the previous Committee left the proceedings before the dissolution of the Assembly.

 

            (3)        A report or a part of the report of a Public Accounts Committee may be presented before a successor Assembly in accordance with rule 167 even if the time for presentation of the report has expired.

 

 

 

 

 

B – Select Committee

 

172. Composition and functions.– (1) The Minister incharge of the Department to which the Bill relates, the Chairman of the Committee concerned with the Bill, the member-in-charge and the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs shall be included in a Select Committee and it shall not be necessary to include their names in any motion for election of such a Committee.

 

            (2)        The other members of the Committee shall be nominated by the Assembly from amongst its members when a motion that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee is adopted.

 

            (3)        The Chairman of the Committee concerned with the Bill shall be the Chairman of the Select Committee.

 

            (4)        If the Chairman is not present at any sitting, the members of the Committee present shall elect one of its members to act as Chairman for that sitting.

 

            (5)        The Chairman, or the member presiding in his absence, shall not vote except in the event of equality of votes.

 

            (6)        A Select Committee may hear expert evidence and representatives of special interests affected by the Bill.

 

 

 

173. Quorum.– (l) The quorum for a sitting of a Select Committee shall be one-third of the total number of members of the Committee.

 

            (2)        If at the time fixed for a sitting of the Select Committee, or at any time during any such sitting, there is no quorum, the Chairman shall either suspend the sitting until a quorum is present or adjourn the sitting to some future day.

 

            (3)        If, for want of quorum, the sitting of a Select Committee is adjourned on two successive dates, the next sitting may be held even if the Committee is not in quorum.

 

 

 

174. Amendments proposed by Select Committee.– A Select Committee shall have power to propose such amendments in the Bill as are not beyond the scope of the Bill.

 

 

 

175. Report.– (1) A Select Committee shall make a report on the Bill within the period specified by the Assembly.

 

            (2)        The report of the Select Committee on a Bill shall be presented to the Assembly by the Chairman or, in his absence, by any other member of the Committee or by the member-in-charge, and there shall be no debate on it at that stage.

 

            (3)        The report of a Select Committee along with the minority view, if any, shall be printed and a copy thereof shall be made available to the members.

 

 

 

C – Public Accounts Committees

 

176. Composition.– [15][(1)       There shall be constituted, after a general election, two Public Accounts Committees and one Public Accounts Committee for the local governments, established under the relevant local government law for the time being in force, for the duration of the Assembly.]

 

            (2)        Each Committee shall consist of [16][seventeen] members to be elected by the Assembly and the Finance Minister shall be its ex-officio member.

 

 

 

177. Functions.– (1) The Committees shall deal with the Appropriation Accounts of the Government [17][or, as the case may be, the local governments] and the report of the Auditor-General thereon and such other matters as the Assembly or the Speaker or the Finance Minister may refer to the Committees.

 

            (2)        Subject to sub-rule (1), the Committees shall deal with the business assigned to them by the Speaker out of the business referred to the Committees under the said sub-rule.

 

            (3)        In scrutinizing the Appropriation Accounts of the Government [18][or, as the case may be, the local governments] and the report of the Auditor-General thereon, it shall be the duty of the Committees to satisfy themselves that–

 

             (a)  the moneys shown in the accounts as having been disbursed were legally available for, and applicable to, the service or purpose to which they have been applied or charged;

 

             (b)  the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it; and

 

             (c)  every re-appropriation had been made in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed by the Government.

 

            (4)        It shall also be the duty of the Committees to–

 

            (a)  examine the statement of accounts showing the income and expenditure of state corporations, trading and manufacturing schemes, concerns and projects together with the balance sheets and statements of profit and loss accounts which the Governor may have required to be prepared or are prepared under the provisions of the statutory rules regulating the financing of a particular corporation, a trading concern or project, and the report of the Auditor-General thereon;

 

            (b)  examine the statements of Accounts showing the income and expenditure of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies the audit of which may be conducted by the Auditor-General under the directions of the Governor or under any law; and

 

            (c)  consider the report of the Auditor-General in case where the Governor may have required him to conduct the audit of any receipts or to examine the accounts of stores and stocks.

 

            (5)        If any money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted by the Assembly for that purpose, the Committee shall examine with reference to the facts of each case the circumstances leading to such an excess and make such recommendations as it may deem fit.

 

 

 

178. Reports.– (1) The report of each Committee shall be presented within a period of one year from the date on which reference is made to it by the Assembly unless the Assembly, on a motion being made, directs that the time for the presentation of the report be extended to a date specified in the motion.

 

            (2)        A Committee may present an interim report or a report in parts.

 

 

 

179. Sittings.– (l) The sittings of the Committees shall ordinarily be held at Lahore.

 

            (2)        If necessary in the public interest, a sitting may be held outside Lahore, with the prior permission of the Speaker and the Finance Minister.

 

      [19][(3) Unless otherwise permitted by the Speaker, each of the Public Accounts Committees constituted under sub-rule (1) of rule 176 shall meet during the first, second and third ten days of a month to dispose of the pending business:

 

Provided that a Committee shall not meet for more than three days in a week without approval of the Speaker.]

 

 

 

D – Committee on Privileges

 

180. Composition.– (1) There shall be a Committee on Privileges for the duration of the Assembly.

 

            (2)        The Committee shall consist of [20][seventeen] members to be elected by the Assembly and the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs shall be its ex-officio member.

 

 

 

181. Functions.– The Committee shall examine every question referred to it and determine with reference to the facts of each case whether a breach of privilege is involved and, if so, the nature of the breach and the circumstances leading to it, and make such recommendations as it may deem fit.

 

 

 

E – Committee on Government Assurances

 

182. Composition and functions.– (1) There shall be a Committee on Government Assurances to scrutinize the assurances, promises and undertakings given, on the floor of the Assembly, by a Minister or a Parliamentary Secretary and to report on all questions relating thereto which are referred to it under sub-rule (3).

 

            (2)        The Committee shall consist of ten members to be elected by the Assembly for its duration.

 

            (3)        A member who feels that an assurance or a promise given to him or an undertaking made by a Minister or a Parliamentary Secretary has not been implemented within a reasonable time, he may in writing, propose that the matter may be referred to the Committee. If the Speaker is satisfied that a reasonable time has elapsed and that the matter should be enquired into by the Committee, he may refer the matter to the Committee.

 

            (4)        The Committee shall scrutinize such assurances, promises and undertakings as are given during the term of the Assembly.

 

            (5)        The Committee shall submit its report within such time as may be fixed by the Speaker or as may be extended by him.

 

F – Library Committee

 

183. Composition and functions.– (1) There shall be a Library Committee consisting of the Deputy Speaker and nine other members to be appointed by the Speaker for the duration of the Assembly.

 

            (2)        The Deputy Speaker shall be the ex-officio Chairman of the Committee.

 

            (3)        Casual vacancies in the Committee shall be filled by nomination by the Speaker.

 

            (4)        The Committee shall consider and advise on such matters concerning the Library of the Assembly as may, from time to time, be referred to it by the Speaker.

 

G – House Committee

 

184. Composition and functions.– (1) There shall be a House Committee consisting of not more than ten members, including the Chairman.

 

            (2)        The Committee, including its Chairman, shall be nominated by the Speaker and shall hold office for a term not exceeding one year.

 

            (3)        A member may be re-nominated by the Speaker to the new House Committee.

 

            (4)        The House Committee shall deal with such questions relating to residential accommodation for members as may, from time to time, be referred to it by the Speaker.

 

 

 

 

 

H – Finance Committee

 

185. Composition and functions.– (1) There shall be a Finance Committee for the duration of the Assembly, consisting of the Speaker, the Finance Minister and seven other members to be elected by the Assembly in the manner prescribed in rule 150.

 

            (2)        The Speaker shall be the Chairman and the Secretary shall be the Secretary of the Committee.

 

            (3)        The Committee shall approve the Annual and Supplementary Budget Estimates of the Assembly and its Secretariat, which shall respectively be included in the Annual Budget Statement and the Supplementary Budget Statement by the Government:

 

            Provided that if at the relevant time, the Assembly stands dissolved or there is no Finance Committee, such approval may be given by the Speaker in anticipation of the approval of the Finance Committee.

 

            (4)        The Committee may, from time to time, approve incurring of additional or new expenditure in anticipation of provision of funds, for the Assembly or its Secretariat and the amount or amounts so approved shall be included in the Supplementary Budget.

 

            (5)        The Committee may make recommendations in regard to any financial matter relating to the Assembly or its Secretariat referred to it by the Assembly or the Speaker.

 

            (6)        Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, the procedure of the Committee shall be regulated by the rules made by the Committee and until such rules are made, the business of the Committee shall be conducted in such manner as the Speaker may direct.

 

I – Business Advisory Committee

 

186. Composition and functions.– (1) At the commencement of the Assembly or from time to time, as the case may be, the Speaker may, in consultation with the Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition, nominate a Business Advisory Committee consisting of not more than twelve members including the Speaker who shall be the Chairman of the Committee.

 

            (2)        It shall be the function of the Committee to recommend the time that should be allocated for the discussion of the stage or stages of such Government Bills and other business as the Speaker, in consultation with the Leader of the House, may direct for being referred to the Committee.

 

            (3)        The Committee shall have the power to indicate in the proposed time table, the different hours at which the various stages of the Bill or other business shall be completed.

 

            (4)        The Committee shall have such other functions as may, from time to time, be assigned to it by the Speaker.

 

J – Special Committee

 

187. Composition and functions.– (1) The Assembly may, by motion, appoint a Special Committee which shall have such composition and functions as may be specified in the motion.

 

            (2)        The Committee shall consist of not more than twelve members excluding the Speaker or a Minister, if any of them is named as a member of the Committee in the motion.

 

K – General

 

188. Supplementary provisions.– (1) The rules pertaining to Standing Committees shall apply to any other Committee, if not inconsistent with the rules particularly applicable to that Committee:

 

            Provided that the provisions of sub-rule (2) of rule 149 shall not apply to the Library Committee, the House Committee and the Finance Committee.

 

            (2)        Where rules contained in this Chapter are silent on a point, a Committee may refer the matter to the Speaker for his directions for the proper conduct of its proceedings and the directions given by the Speaker shall be followed.

 



[1]Sub-rule (1) substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(15)/2013/1380; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 22 February 2016, pp 3937-44.

[2]Substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1908; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 January 2019, page 1765; for the following:

“7.

Standing Committee on Education

Higher Education

& School Education”

 

[3]Substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1908; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 January 2019, page 1765; for the following:

“13.

Standing Committee on Health

Health”

 

[4]Substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1908; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 January 2019, page 1765; for the following:

“19.

Standing Committee on Irrigation & Energy

(i)            Irrigation

(ii)              Energy”

 

[5]Substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1908; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 January 2019, page 1765; for the following:

“21.

Standing Committee on Law

(i)            Law and Parliamentary Affairs

(ii)  Public Prosecution

 

[6]New sub-rule inserted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(15)/2013/1380; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 22 February 2016, pp 3937-44.

[7]Substituted for the word “ten” vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1898; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 15 January 2019, page 1677.

[8]New sub-rules inserted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(15)/2013/1380; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 22 February 2016, pp 3937-44.

[9]New sub-rule inserted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(15)/2013/1380; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 22 February 2016, pp 3937-44.

[10]In exercise of the powers conferred on him under rule 235 of the Rules of Procedure of Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, read with rule 156 and rule 188 of the said Rules, and all other powers enabling him in this behalf, the Acting Speaker directed as under:

“If the Chairman does not call a sitting of the Committee in terms of sub-rule (7) of rule 156 of the Rules of Procedure of Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1997, within the stipulated period, the Secretary may fix the date and time of a sitting.”

The above order shall remain in force until a provision to this effect is made in the Rules of Procedure of Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 1997; see Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(15)/2013/1206, dated 20 March 2015; see the Punjab Gazette (Weekly; Pt V), dated 12 August 2015, p.4.

[11]Substituted for the word “three” vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1898; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 15 January 2019, page 1677.

[12]Added vide Notification No.PAP/Legis-1(94)/96/532, dated 22 October 2003 – see the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 23 October 2003, p.2331.

[13]Substituted for the word “four” vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1898; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 15 January 2019, page 1677.

[14]New sub-rule inserted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(15)/2013/1380; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 22 February 2016, pp 3937-44.

[15]Sub-rule (1) substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/2008; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 April 2019, page 3033; for the following:

(1) There shall be constituted, after a general election, two Public Accounts Committees for the duration of the Assembly.

[16]In the beginning, the number of members was “ten”; it was increased to “thirteen” vide Notification No.PAP/Legis-1(94)/96/487, dated 31 July 2003 – published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 2 August 2003, pp.1493-94; it was further increased to “seventeen” vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1898; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 15 January 2019, page 1677.

[17]Inserted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/2008; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 April 2019, page 3033.

[18]Inserted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/2008; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 April 2019, page 3033.

[19]Sub-rule (1) substituted vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/2008; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25 April 2019, page 3033; for the following:

“(3)      Unless otherwise permitted by the Speaker, one of the Public Accounts Committees shall meet during the first fortnight of a month and the other, during the second fortnight of a month to dispose of the pending business:

            Provided that a Committee shall not meet for more than three days in a week without approval of the Speaker.”

[20]In the beginning, the number of members was “ten”; it was increased to “thirteen” vide Notification No.PAP/Legis-1(94)/96/487, dated 31 July 2003 – published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 2 August 2003, pp.1493-94; it was further increased to “seventeen” vide Notification No. PAP/Legis-1(28)/2018/1898; published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 15 January 2019, page 1677.