(b) a person holding any kind of office specified by a law enacted by Parliament prohibiting a persons holding such office to be appointed a member of Electoral Commission; and (c) a Member of Parliament, a Councilor or other persons holding the kind of office specified by a law enacted by Parliament in terms of the provisions of paragraph (g) of subarticle (2) of Article 67 of this Constitution; and (d) a leader of any political party. (4) Subject to the other provisions of this Article, a member of the Electoral Commission shall cease to be a member whenever any of the following occurs ­ (a) upon the expiration of five years since his appointment; or (b) where anything happens which, had he not been a member of the Commission, would have made him ineligible for appointment to be a member of the Commission. (5) The President may remove a member of the Electoral Commission from office only for failing to discharge his functions either due to illness or any other reason or due to misconduct or loss of the qualifications for being a member. (6) The responsibilities of the Electoral Commission shall be: (a) to supervise and co-ordinate the registration of voters in Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the United Republic; (b) to supervise and co-ordinate the conduct of the Presidential and Parliamentary election; (c) to review the boundaries and demarcate the United Republic into various areas for the purposes of Parliamentary elections; (d) to supervise and co-ordinate the registration of voters and the conduct of the election of Councilors; and (e) to perform any other functions in accordance with a law enacted by Parliament. (7) For the better carrying out of its functions, the Electoral Commission shall be an autonomous department, and its chief executive shall be the Director of Elections, who shall be appointed and shall discharge duties in accordance with a law enacted by Parliament. (8) Parliament may enact a law providing for the procedure for supervising the election of Members of Parliament representing constituencies. (9) The Electoral Commission may discharge its functions notwithstanding that there is a vacancy among its membership or that one of its members is absent, provided that every decision of the Commission must be supported by a majority of all the members of the Commission. (10) Parliament may enact a law providing for the procedure of appointing delegates to supervise elections of constituency Members of Parliament and, subject to the provisions of any law or the directions of the Electoral Commission, the powers of the Electoral Commission to supervise the elections may be exercised by such delegates. (11) In discharging its functions in accordance with the provisions of this 48

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