ISLAMABAD, Nov 06 (APP):The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has set a deadline of December 31 for all members of parliament and provincial assemblies to s
ubmit their statements of assets and lia
bilities, including those of their spouses and dependents.
The ECP requires all parliamentarians to s
ubmit their yearly statements of assets and lia
bilities, including similar details for their spouses and dependent children, as of the preceding June 30 on Form B for the 2023-2024 financial year – a mandatory requirement under Section 137 of the Elections Act, 2017.
The Commission, on the first day of January each year will publish names of members, who fail to s
ubmit the requisite statement of assets and lia
bilities including assets and lia
bilities within the specified period.
The commission will on January 16 by an order suspend the membership of a member of an
Assembly or Senate, who fails to s
ubmit the statement of assets and lia
bilities by the fifteenth day of January and such Member shall cease to function till he files the statement of assets and lia
bilities.
The ECP further said that any member submitting fake statement of assets and lia
bilities under this section in material particulars may, within 120 days from the date submission of the statement, be proceeded against for committing the offence of corrupt practice.
The ECP said that the prescribed form, along with instructions and guidelines prepared in this regard, can be obtained free of cost from the Election Commission of Pakistan Secretariat, Islamabad, offices of provincial election commissioners in each province, Senate Secretariat, National
Assembly, and secretariats of provincial assemblies. Form B can also be downloaded from the ECP’s website www.ecp.
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