Independent Electoral Commission Amendment Act

1. Section 6 of the Independent Electoral Commission Act, 1993 (hereinafter 5 referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended- (a) by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the following 10 15 20 25 paragraph: "(b) serve in a full-time capacity to the exclusion of any other duty or obligation arising out of any other employment or occupation or the holding of any other office, unless specifically authorised thereto by the President."; (b). by the substitution for paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph: "(a) during his or her term of office be eligible for appointment or nomination to any political [or public] office, whether involving remuneration or not[, and such ineligibility shall, in respect of such public office, continue for a period of 18 months reckoned from the date upon which such term of office as a member has terminated, save in respect of the resumption of any previously held public office at the same level];"; and (c) by the substitution for paragraph (f) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph: "(f) accept any remuneration, emolument or benefit, of what- ever nature, arising from any other employment or occu pation or the holding of any other office, unless specifically authorised thereto by the [State] President[, acting upon the advice of the Transitional Council];". GOVERNMENT GAZEITE; 13 JULY 1994 INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACf, 1994 No. 15846 5 Act No. 5, 1994 Substitution of section 9 of Act 150 of 1993

2. The following section is hereby substituted for section 9 of the principal Act: 5 10 15 20 25 "Dissolution of Commission 9. ill The Commission shall be dissolved upon the completion of its mandate on a date fixed by the [State] President by proclamation in the Gazette. (2) In the proclamation referred to in subsection (1), the President shall designate a department of state or other institution, which shall wind up the affairs of the Commission, and the President may make any other order therein relating to the said winding-up that he or she deems expedient. (3) For the purposes of . any legal relationship, including legal proceedings involving the Commission, the Minister of such depart ment of state or the head of the institution in question, as the case may be, shall be the successor in title to the Commission.". Substitution of section 10 of Act 150 of 1993

3. The following section is hereby substituted for section 10 of the principal Act: "Conditions of service, remuneration and allowances of members of Commission and International Advisory Committee

10. The conditions of service, remuneration, allowances and other benefits of members of the Commission and the International Advisory Committee shall, from time to time, be determined by the [Transitional Council after consultation with the State] President.". Short title and commencement

4. This Act shall be called the Independent Electoral Commission Amend ment Act, 1994, and subsections (a) and (c) of section 1 and section 3 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 10 May 1994.