Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 31

31. Inserted vide Notification of the Pakistan Bar Council dated 16-11-2015 66 Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976

(a)the date for receipt of proposals for election;

(b)the date, not being a date later than seven days of the date on which proposals for election are to be delivered at the office of the Returning Officer for the scrutiny of such proposals;

(c)the date on which list of the contesting candidates shall be published;

(d)the date by which a candidate may withdraw his proposal;

(e)the date on which the final list of the candidates shall be published;

(f)the date on which the voting shall take place;

(g)the date on which the result of election shall be declared; and

(h)the date by which objections to the validity of election of a member shall be filed: Provided that there shall be an interval of at least fourteen days between the date for scrutiny and the date on which voting shall take place and the date on which the result of election is declared and the date for filing objections to the election.

(2)The place of the office of the Returning Officer shall also be specified in the notification and the location of the office shall not be changed during the course of election except for compelling reasons and notice of such change shall be published in at least one leading English and one leading vernacular daily of the province 32[or ICT, as the case may be,] not later than four days before the change takes place.

(3)Copies of the programme shall be sent to the Chief Justice of the High Court for information and to the Presidents of all the Bar Associations for being pasted at the notice boards of their offices. 33