Supreme Court Bar Association Rules — section 13

13. [(a) The election of office bearers and members of the Committee shall be conducted by the Committee and it may constitute an Election Committee of five advocates of not less than fifteen years standing as Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to oversee the conduct of elections. Any sitting member of existing Committee desirous of contesting election shall not be member of the Election Committee. The Committee shall:-]

(i)Prepare the list of voters in accordance with the relevant provisions of Rule 4:

(ii)issue the election programme setting forth the date, time and place for filing of nomination papers, their scrutiny, hearing of objections and decisions thereon, hearing of an appeal against any such decision, issuing the final list of candidates, holding of elections, unofficial count of votes, official count of votes including recount, if necessary, and consolidation and declaration of results; and

(iii)appoint Presiding Officers, Polling Officers and other staff, as it deems fit.

(b)(i) any person aggrieved by rejection of his nomination paper or acceptance of any nomination paper may file an appeal before the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council within two days of such decision.

(ii)any person filing the appeal shall, on the date of its filing, serve a notice of filing of the appeal on the respondent(s), if any, in person or by a telegram: Provided that a person at whose objection the nomination paper has been rejected or a person whose nomination paper has been accepted shall be deemed to have notice of the appeal, if any, and shall make himself available on the date fixed for hearing of objections in person or through an authorized agent at the time of hearing of the appeal, if he so desires, failing which the appeal may be heard in his absence.

(iii)The Executive Committee, after hearing the appellant and the respondent, if any, and after perusing the relevant record, allow or dismiss the appeal and its decision shall be final.

(c)(i) Any candidate aggrieved by the result for the post for which he was a candidate or aggrieved by any decision adversely effecting such result may file an appeal before the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council within 15 days of declaration of the result.

(ii)The Executive Committee shall hear and decide the appeal in its next meeting unless, for reasons to be recorded, the hearing is adjourned to another date.

(iii)The authority hearing the appeal may, in the interest of justice, pass such interim orders, as it may think necessary. [(d)] Deleted.