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Citation Name : 1950 PLD 15 FEDERAL-COURT-OF-PAKISTAN
Side Appellant :KHAN IFTEKHAR HUSSAIN KHAN OF MAMDOT
Side Opponent : THE PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB (THROUGH THE GOVERNOR)
india n Independence Act 1947 Public and Representative Offices (Disqualification) Act 1949-Whether ultra vires of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan-Independence Act, 1947, S. (8) (1). The words of subsection (1) of section 8 of the Independence Act, 1947, are that the Constituent Assembly shall enact legislation "for the purpose of making provision as to the constitution of the Dominion". The words "for the
of the
to the constitution
as
provision
of making
comprise all enactments which could be regarded as constitutional laws. The Act is a "constitutional law" and, therefore, it fall s within the purview of the words "for the purpose of making provision as to the constitution of the Dominion" as they occur in subsection (1) of section 8 of the Independance act, 1947
