(6) No member of any political party shall register as an independent candidate, and shall not register as a candidate for the election concerned if seceding from the party, changing his or her membership, or holding two or more memberships at the same time during the candidate registration period (including the time of application for candidate registration). These provisions shall also apply to where he or she loses his or her party membership due to the dissolution of the party, the cancellation of registration, or the central party's revocation of its approval of the formation of a City/Do party. <Amended on Mar. 12, 2004> (7) Applications for candidate registration shall be accepted from 9:00 a.m. through to 6 p.m. each day, regardless of statutory holidays. <Amended on Jul. 28, 2011> (8) Upon receipt of an application for candidate registration, the competent constituency election commission shall immediately accept it, but shall not accept an application for registration when the written application for registration, a letter of nomination from the political party and the candidate's acceptance letter, letters of recommendation of eligible voters, election deposits, and the documents under paragraph (4) 2 through 5 are not attached, or when the ratio and order of female candidates nominated under Article 47 (3) are violated: Provided, That even though the documents attesting to a candidate's eligibility for election are not attached, the competent constituency election commission shall accept the application of such candidate, but then investigate the facts thereof, and the agencies or organizations which receive a request for such investigation shall verify the fact thereof without delay and make a reply to the competent constituency election commission. <Amended on Feb. 16, 2000; Mar. 7, 2002; Mar. 12, 2004; Aug. 4, 2005; Oct. 4, 2006; Apr. 6, 2018; Jan. 14, 2020; Dec. 29, 2020> (9) Where the relevant public service ethics committee under Article 9 of the Public Service Ethics Act makes a request, the competent election commission of the election district shall send the relevant public service ethics committee a copy of a report on property subject to registration submitted by an elected candidate pursuant to paragraph (4) 2 within 15 days after such candidate is elected. <Amended on Dec. 24, 2015> (10) Any person who intends to become a candidate or any political party may request a criminal record check on the principal or any party member who intends to become a candidate from the head of the national police station, starting from 150 days before the date on which an election period commences, and the head of the national police station so requested shall make a reply without delay of such criminal record. In such cases, the replied criminal record shall be concurrently submitted at the time of candidate registration, and where such check on the candidate is deemed necessary, the competent constituency election commission may, request the criminal record check on such candidate from the chief of the public prosecutor's office having jurisdiction over the relevant constituency, without delay after the deadline of candidate registration, and the chief of the relevant public prosecutor's office shall without delay make a reply of whether such criminal record is genuine. <Amended on Mar. 7, 2002; Mar. 12, 2004; Aug. 4, 2005; Feb. 21, 2006; Jul. 28, 2011> (11) Any one may, during the election period, peruse the criminal records which are received by the competent constituency election commission under paragraph (10). <Newly Inserted on Feb. 16, 2000>