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Article 7
 

(1) The registration, transfer, correction and cancellation of voters, the compilation of the Electoral Register, the election of members of the House of Representatives and the administration of the Electoral Office shall be the sole responsibility of the Commission established by section 60 of the Constitution. The Chief Electoral Commissioner shall be responsible for the day to day running of the Electoral Office.

(2) The Commission shall be composed of the Chief Electoral Commissioner as chairman and eight members as Electoral Commissioners.

(3) The Electoral Commission shall be a body corporate having a distinct legal personality and shall be capable, subject to the provisions of this Act, of entering into contracts, of acquiring, holding and disposing of any kind of property for the purposes of its functions, of suing and being sued, and of doing all such things and entering into all such transactions as are incidental or conducive to the exercise of its functions under this Act.

(4) The legal representation of the Commission shall vest in the Chief Electoral Commissioner or in such other member or such other members of the Commission, as the Commission may establish by resolution, which resolution shall not come into force before it is published in the Gazette.