Constitution

Part XII · Miscellaneous · General

Failure to comply with requirement as to time does not render an act invalid

Article 254

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English · authoritative

When any act or thing is required by the Constitution to be done within a particular period and it is not done within that period, the doing of the act or thing shall not be invalid or otherwise ineffective by reason only that it was not done within that period.

Urdu · official translation (2018)

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Article 254 of the Constitution
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Article 254 of the Constitution (Failure to comply with requirement as to time does not render an act invalid)
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Article 254, Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973

English text as amended up to 21 November 2025 (27th Amendment), published by Ministry of Law and Justice / National Assembly of Pakistan. The English text is authoritative. Official PDF, page 183