64. Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman of Committees

General Election, elect three Members to be respectively the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees

(hereinafter referred to as the “Deputy Speaker”) and the

Deputy Chairman of Committees thereof.

Deputy Speaker or the Deputy Chairman of Committees shall, unless he earlier resigns his office by a writing under his hand addressed to the President or ceases to be a

Member, vacate his office on the dissolution of

Parliament.

48 - Substituted by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 3.

49 - Substituted by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 15.

Speaker or Deputy Chairman of Committees becomes vacant otherwise than as a result of a dissolution of

Parliament, Parliament shall at its first meeting after the occurrence of the vacancy elect another Member to be the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker or the Deputy Chairman of Committees, as the case may be.

Members mentioned in paragraph (2) of this Article shall, notwithstanding anything therein, resume and continue to hold his office while that Parliament is kept in session.

Speaker, or in their absence the Deputy Chairman of

Committees, shall preside at sittings of Parliament. If none of them is present, a Member elected by Parliament for the sitting shall preside at the sitting of Parliament.