Article 382 - [Omitted] Provisions as to provisional Legislatures for States in Part A of the First Schedule

Provisional legislatures: provincial Houses exercise state legislative powers until state Houses are constituted, with certain elections completed.

Article 382 provided that until State legislatures in Part A were duly constituted under the Constitution, the corresponding Provincial Houses then functioning would exercise the powers and duties of the State legislature; pre commencement ordered general elections could be completed after commencement and the reconstituted Assembly treated as the Provincial Assembly for transitional purposes; and incumbent Provincial Speakers, Deputy Speakers, Presidents or Deputy Presidents would serve as the corresponding State presiding officers while those bodies functioned under the transitional arrangement, except where a post commencement first meeting of a reconstituted Assembly required fresh election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker.