Conduct of Government Business
34. Conduct of business of the Federal Government: -Provision should be made for framing rules by the Head of the State for the conduct of Government business.
35. Duties of Prime Minister as respects furnishing of information to the Head of the State. -Provision should be made whereby the Head of the State should be kept informed of all the decisions of the Council of Ministers and proposals for legislation. The Head of the State should also be furnished with such information relating to the administration of the affairs of the State and proposals for legislation as he might call for.
CHAPTER II
The Federal Legislature
36. Constitution of the Federal Legislature: -There should be a Federal Legislature consisting of two Houses which will in these Recommendations be called the House of Units and the House of the People.
37. Right of sending messages to the Federal Legislature: - The Head of the State may send messages to either House of the Federal Legislature, whether with respect to a Bill then pending in the Federal Legislature or otherwise, and the House to which any message is so sent should, with all convenient dispatch consider any matter which they are required by the message to take into consideration.
(A) The House of Units
38. Composition of the House of Units: - The House of Units should consist of 120 members who should be elected in the following manner.
(i) The Legislature of East Bengal should elect 60 members according to the principle of proportional representation by means of the single transferable WOtĖ.
(ii) Seats in the House of Units should be allocated to the Capital of the Federation and the Units of West Pakistan as follows:
(iii) In the case of a Unit, having a Legislature, members of the House of Units should be elected by the Legislature of a Unit according to the principle of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
