The public office is a position whose occupant has legal authority to exercise a government’s sovereign powers for a fixed period. [PLR 2024 Lahore 4 = 2023 LHC 5587 = PLD 2024 Lahore 54]

The public office is a position whose occupant has legal authority to exercise a government’s sovereign powers for a fixed period. [PLR 2024 Lahore 4 = 2023 LHC 5587 = PLD 2024 Lahore 54]

A public office is the right, authority and duty created and conferred by law, by which an individual is vested with some portion of the sovereign functions of the government to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public, for the term and by the tenure prescribed by law. It implies a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power. It is a trust conferred by public authority for a public purpose, embracing the ideas of tenure, duration, emoluments and duties. The determining factor, the test, is whether the office involves a delegation of some of the solemn functions of government, executive, legislative or judicial, to be exercised by the holder for the public benefit. [PLR 2024 Lahore 4 = 2023 LHC 5587 = PLD 2024 Lahore 54]