Article 57. Provincial People’s Councils of federated Provinces have the right to object to an Act of the Federal Assembly, provided that the particular legislation will not relate to any of the Federal subjects enumerated in the preceding article. The objected legislation shall be referred to the local People’s Committees in the objecting Province. A favourable verdict of the People’s Committees shall overrule the objection.If the referendum supports the objection, the dispute between the Province and the Centre shall be submitted to a Federal Referendum, through the People’s Committees.Pending the Referendum, the law shall be in operation in the whole of the Federal Union.In case of the Federal Referendum favouring the objection, the disputed legislation shall lapse. In the contrary case, the objecting Provincial Legislature shall endorse the Act of the Federal Assembly.
