CHAPTER VII
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
44.
The Constitution shall be amended or replaced as
in the manner described herein.
(1) Prime
Minister, with the approval of Cabinet of Ministers, or a Member of Parliament
with consent and signatures of not less than one third of the whole number of Members
of Parliament shall submit a Bill to amend or to completely repeal and replace
the Constitution to State Assembly;
(2) Such
Bill shall be passed with a Special Majority, as described in paragraph (4) of
Article 43;
(3) Speaker
shall endorse such Bill signing the Certificate of endorsement by Members of
State Assembly, and order Elections Commission to conduct a Referendum as per
the provisions of Article 112;
(4) After
Elections Commission proclaims the result thereof, the President shall endorse
such Bill signing the Certificate of endorsement by the People at Referendum,
as in the following manner, and the amendment or the Constitution, as the case
may be, shall become operational immediately after his signature:
“This Bill (here State the long title of the Bill) has been endorsed by the
Speaker and then approved by the People at Referendum, and hereinafter shall be
a common law in the Republic.”
Where such Bill becomes law upon the certificate of the President, no court or
tribunal shall inquire into, pronounce upon, or in any manner call in question
the validity of such amendment or the Constitution, as the case may be, on any
ground whatsoever.
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