1. ABDUL SHARURYJL SALAIN, J.-The petitioner was elected as a Chairman of Union Council No. 79, Chak No. 45/S. B., Tehsil and District Sargodha, on 20-12-1979. For consideration of a no-confidence motion against him, a meeting of the council was held under the Vice-Chairmanship of the Union Council on 18-12-1980 and all the members voted against him. He was thus unseated. He has filed this constitutional petition.
2. Learned counsel appearing far him has stated that the rule under which the Vice-Chairman presided had been amended by the Notification dated IS-12-1980, whereby the Assistant Commissioner was to preside over the meeting for a no-confidence motion against a Chairman of the Union Council, It is, however, admitted that the Notification was gazetted on 21-12-1980. Learned counsel submits that notwithstanding the publication in the gazetted on 21-12-1980, the Notification came into effect when it was made on 18-12-1980.
3. The contention has no force. A similar point arose in the case of Abdul Ghani v. Muhammad Suleman and another (1) where after reference to various authorities, it was held that the Notification became operative from the day it was published in the official Gazette. The judgment, with approval, was upheld by the learned Supreme Court of Pakistan in the case of Muhammad Suleman etc. v. Abdul Ghani (2). The matter is, therefore, clinched. On the day when the no- confidence motion was passed against the petitioner, the amendment had not been published in the gazette and consequently could not retrospectively nullify the proceeding held in accordance with the then existing law. Moreover, these is no way of saying that the Notification made on 18-12- 1980 in Lahore reached. Sargodha where the proceeding took place the same day. Further, the petitioner had lost confidence of the entire body of members whose Chairman he was. Having' lost the confidence of the entire electorate the petitioner can hardly hope toy succeed in a constitutional petition requiring exercise of discretionary jurisdiction to be put in an elected office.
4. This petition is, therefore, dismissed) but in the circumstances the parties shall bear their own costs.
(1) PLD 1978 Lah. 897(2) PLD 1978 SC 190