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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 article 60 of the Constitution. The Chief Electoral Commissioner shall be responsible for the day to  day running of the Electoral Office and for the implementation of  the decisions of the Commission. 


(2) The Commission shall be composed of the Chief Electoral Commissioner as chairman and ten (10) members as Electoral  Commissioners; such members shall reflect equal representation  between sexes, in any case not having less than four (4) members of  every sex. 


(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.