Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 60

60. (1) Any candidate, or in his absence, his agent may, at any time during the counting of votes either before the commencement or after the completion of any transfer of votes, whether surplus or otherwise, request the Returning Officer to re-examine and recount the papers of all or any candidate, not being papers set aside at any previous transfer as finally dealt with and the Returning Officer shall forthwith re-examine and recount the same accordingly: Provided that nothing in this sub-rule shall make it obligatory on the Returning Officer to recount the same votes more than once.

(2)The Returning Officer may, in his discretion, recount the votes either once or more than once in any case in which he is not satisfied as to accuracy of any previous count.