80. Absence from Provincial Assembly.- If a member of a Provincial Assembly is absent from the Assembly, without leave of the Assembly, for sixty consecutive sitting days, his seat shall become vacant.
81. Oath of Members- If a member of a Provincial Assembly fails to make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution within a period of six months from the date of the first meeting of the Assembly after his election, his seat shall become vacant:
Provided that the Speaker may before the expiration of the said period, for good cause shown, extend the period.
82. Resignation of members.- A member of Provincial Assembly may resign his seat by notice in writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker.
Meetings and Procedure of Provincial Assembly.
83. Duration, summoning, prorogation and dissolution of a Provincial Assembly.- (1) The Government may summon, prorogue or dissolve the Provincial Assembly and shall, when summoning the Assembly, fix the time and place of the meeting.
(2) Whenever a Chief Minister of a Provincial Government is appointed, the Provincial Assembly, if, at the time of the appointment, it is not sitting and does not stand dissolved, shall be summoned so as to meet within two months thereafter.
(3) Unless sooner dissolved, a Provincial Assembly shall stand dissolved on the expiration of five years after the date, of its first meeting.
84. Sessions of Provincial Assembly.- There shall be at least two sessions of a Provincial Assembly in every year, and six months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Assembly in one session, and its first sitting in the next session.
85. Governor's address and messages to the Provincial Assembly.- The Governor of a Province may address the Provincial Assembly and may send messages thereto.
86. Right of Ministers and the Advocate-General to address a Provincial Assembly.- Every Minister and the Advocate-General of a Province shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise take part in the proceedings of, the Provincial Assembly, and of any committee thereof of which he may be named a member, but shall not by virtue of this Article be entitled to vote.
87. Speaker and Deputy Speaker.- (1) Every Provincial Assembly shall, as soon as may be, choose two of its members to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the Assembly shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.
