A person who intends to lodge a complaint against a member of the Institute shall submit to the Secretary, a statement of complaint orally or in writing in Form DCI set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

A person who lodges a statement of complaint under paragraph (1) shall submit together with the complaint, documents in support of the claim and the prescribed fee.

Where the complaint is made orally, or otherwise, or the complainant cannot read or write, the complaint shall be recorded in writing by a designated officer of the Council.

There shall be paid to the Council such filing and other fees, including fees for service by the Committee of any notice or process, as shall be prescribed.

The Committee may, if it considers it to be in the interest of justice, or on grounds of financial hardship on the part of the applicant, waive all or part of the filing fees payable in any application.

Upon filing a complaint with the Secretary, the complainant shall serve a copy of the complaint, on the respondent within thirty days from the date of filing the complaint.

Any document required to be served under these Regulations shall, where practicable, be served personally on the person by delivering the document to the person or, if the person cannot be so served, shall be served by sending the document to the person's proper address by registered post or by other verifiable form of delivery.

The Secretary may, at the request of any party and on payment of such costs as the Committee may determine, serve a copy of the notice of the complaint and of any reply, together with any supporting documents, amendments or supplementary statements, written representations or other documents received from any party on all parties to the proceedings and if any person or body is subsequently enjoined as a party, upon that person or body.

Upon registering a complaint under regulation 5, the Secretary shall transmit a copy of the complaint to each member of the Committee and to the person whose conduct is the subject of investigation.

The Committee shall inform the complainant of its decision under paragraph 3(b) within fourteen days of its decision.

Where the Committee decides to investigate a complaint under paragraph 3(b), the Secretary shall notify the member against whom the complaint has been made of its decision and require him or her to respond to the complaint by the date notified date therein.

An order of the Committee dismissing a complaint under this paragraph shall be notified to the complainant and the respondent but shall not be a bar to a further complaint under the same grounds upon the discovery of new evidence which was not within the knowledge of the complainant.

For the purposes of paragraph (b), a complaint is repetitive if it is substantially the same as a previous complaint, whether made by or on behalf of the same or a different complainant, or if it concerns the same subject as a previous complaint;

Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Committee from investigating a complaint if it considers that it is in the public interest to do so.

Any person who is aggrieved by a decision to reject a complaint may make an application for review of that decision.

An application for review shall only be made upon the discovery of new information or evidence which was not within the knowledge of the complainant when the decision was made or for any other sufficient reason.

The Committee shall consider the application and may allow it.

The Committee shall determine the outcome of an application for review as soon as practicable and shall notify the applicant of the reason for its determination.

Where the Committee receives an application for review it may request any information from any person which it considers necessary to dispose of the application.

The Committee shall notify the applicant of its decision within seven of making the decision thereof.

A complainant may, in writing, withdraw a complaint at any stage of the proceedings and before any finding or recommendation is made, but such withdrawal shall not automatically terminate the investigation.

The Committee may, in its discretion, continue with the investigation of any complaint, if, on the basis of evidence before it, such investigation is in the public interest.

Where a complainant fails or neglects to respond to communication from the Committee within twelve months from the date of such communication, the Committee may deem the complaint date of such communication, the Committee may deem the complaint to have lapsed.

Provided that the Committee may on its own motion, commence the investigation of the complaint as if the same was a complaint requiring special investigation.

A respondent shall within fourteen days of receipt of the order under regulation 9(4) file with the Secretary his Statement of Response in Form DC2 set out in the schedule.

The respondent shall file together with his or her statement of response under paragraph (1) documents in support of his or her statement as he or she considers necessary.

The Secretary shall, upon receipt of the Statement of Response and supporting documents enter the fact in the register kept for the said purpose.

The Secretary shall, within seven days of receipt of the Statement of Response furnish the Committee with the Statement of Response and any supporting documents.

A hearing notice shall be issued by the Committee and served on all other parties to the proceedings not less than twenty one days before the date set for the hearing.

The Committee may alter the place and time of any hearing and the Committee shall give the parties not less than seven days notice of the alteration.

The Committee may, from time to time, on its own motion or on the application of a party to the proceedings, adjourn the hearing and if the date, place and time of the next hearing is announced in the presence of all the parties at the time of the allowing adjourning the hearing, no hearing notice shall be required to be issued to any party.

An oath may be administered by the person chairing the meeting of the Committee or by the Secretary.

Notices and summons of the Committee shall be issued under the hand of the Secretary and shall be deemed to have been issued by the Committee.

Proceedings before the Committee shall be conducted in English or Kiswahili.

The Committee shall, taking into account all the circumstances, grant the assistance of a competent interpreter free of charge to a party or witness who does not understand or speak the language used at the hearing or who is deaf.

The rulings of the Committee shall be in the English language but may be translated, on request by a party, into the Kiswahili language.

The Committee may receive or obtain information from such persons as it may deem proper, including, information from such persons as the Committee considers to posses knowledge or experience in matters relating to any complaint before it.

Where a complaint is not disposed of after the preliminary investigation, the Committee shall review the complaint with a view to initiating further investigations.

The Committee may on its own motion or on the application by a party to the proceedings give directions, including directions for the furnishing of further particulars or supplementary statements, as are necessary to enable the parties prepare for the hearing or assist the Committee determine the issues related to the hearing before it.

The Committee may take into account the need to protect any matter that relates to the intimate personal or financial circumstance of any party, is commercially sensitive, consists of information communicated or obtained in confidence or concerns national security and may order that all or part of the evidence of a person be heard in

private or prohibit or restrict the publication of that evidence.

Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), all proceedings before the Committee shall be held in public.

The Committee shall not compel a person to give any evidence or produce any document or other material that the person could not be compelled to give or produce in a trial for an action in a court of law.

An application by a party for directions shall be made in writing to the Committee and shall, unless accompanied by the written consent of all parties, be served by the party seeking directions on all other parties to the proceedings.

If any party objects to the directions sought, the Committee shall consider the objection and if it considers it necessary, give the parties an opportunity to appear and be heard by it on the objection proceedings.

Where a party fails to comply with directions given under these Regulations, the Committee may, in addition to other powers available to it, before or at the hearing of the complaint dismiss the whole or part of the complaint, or, as the case may be, strike out the whole or part of a respondent's reply and where appropriate, direct that a party be excluded from participating in the hearing.

The Committee shall not dismiss, strike out or give any directions under paragraph (1) of this regulation unless it has served a notice on the party who has failed to comply with the direction, giving him an opportunity to show cause why the Committee should not give directions under paragraph (1) of this regulation.

A person on whom directions, including any summons, are served and who had no opportunity of objecting to the making of directions may apply to the Committee to vary or set aside the directions.

The Committee shall not vary or set aside any directions under paragraph (1) of this regulation without first notifying the person who applied for the directions and considering any representations made by that person.

A person who is summoned to give evidence before the Committee shall be given at least seven days' notice of the hearing.

A witness summons issued under this section shall be in Form DC4 set out in the Schedule.

Before determining an application under paragraph (a)(i) of this regulation, the Committee shall consider any representations made in writing submitted by that party in response to the notice of application and for the purpose of this regulation, the application and any reply shall be treated as representations in writing.

A party aggrieved by the decision of the Committee under paragraph (a)(i) may file an application within thirty days from the date of the decision for review of the order, and the Committee may within reasonable time review the order on such terms as it considers fit, if the Committee is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for non -attendance.

The chairperson shall, at the commencement of the hearing, explain the order of proceedings which the Committee proposes to adopt.

The Committee shall conduct the hearing such manner as it considers suitable for the determination of the application or the clarification of issues before it and generally in the interest of justice, avoid legal technicality and formality in its proceedings.

The parties shall be heard in such order as the Committee shall determine, and shall be entitled to give evidence, call witnesses, and address the Committee on both evidence and generally on the subject matter of the application.

Evidence before the Committee may be given orally or, if the Committee so orders, by affidavit or written statement, provided that the Committee may at any stage of the proceedings require the personal attendance of any deponent or author of a written statement.

The Committee may receive evidence of any fact which appears to it to be relevant to the application.

The Committee may, during the hearing and if it satisfied that it is just and reasonable to do so, permit a party to rely on grounds not stated in his notice of application or, as the case may be, his reply and to adduce any evidence not presented to the Commissioner before or at the time the Commissioner took the disputed decision.

The Committee may require any witness to give evidence on oath or affirmation and for that purpose it may administer an oath or affirmation in the prescribed form.

The Committee may of its own motion, or upon the application of any party, adjourn the inquiry upon such terms as it thinks fit.

Notice of an adjournment of the inquiry shall be given to the persons involved in the proceedings in writing by the Committee.

Before the Committee takes notice of any fact, information, opinion or policy or rule other than that which may be judicially noticed by a court, it shall notify the parties of its intention and afford them a reasonable opportunity to make representations with respect thereto.

Any party to the proceedings, may represent himself or be represented by an advocate of his choice.

A party who is represented by an advocate may, at any stage of the proceedings change his advocate upon giving notice to the Committee and his former advocate.

The party shall serve the notice of change of advocate on all other parties to the proceedings.

The decision of the Committee may be taken by a majority of the members present and the decision shall record whether it was unanimous or taken by a majority of the members present.

For the purposes of making the decision on the inquiry every member of the Committee has one vote, and, in the event of an equality of votes, the chairperson shall have a casting vote.

The decision of the Committee shall be in writing and may be read out at the end of the hearing or be reserved and shall be signed and dated by the chairperson and every member who heard the matter.

A dissenting opinion may be pronounced separately by the member who wrote it and shall be dated and signed by that member.

Every document containing a decision referred to in this regulation shall, as soon as may be reasonable, be entered in the register and the Committee shall send a copy of the entry to each party.

Every copy of an entry sent to the parties under paragraph (6) of this regulation shall be accompanied by a notification indicating the rights of the parties and of the time within which and place at which those rights may be exercised.

Where the decision of the Committee refers to any evidence which has been heard in private a summary of the decision, omitting such material as the Committee may direct, shall be entered in the register, but copies of the complete decision document shall be sent to the parties together with a copy of the entry.

Except where a decision is announced at the end of the hearing, it shall be treated as having been made on the date on which a copy of the document recording it is sent to the applicant.

Every order or determination of the Committee shall be made under the hand of chairperson or in his or her absence, by the person chairing the meeting at which the order or determination is made.

Every order or determination of the Committee bearing the signature of the person chairing the meeting shall be prima facie evidence that the order or determination is that of the Committee.

Before making any order under paragraph (1) of this regulation, the Committee shall send a notice to the party against whom the order is to be made, giving that party an opportunity to show cause why the order should not be made.

A person who intends to lodge a complaint against a member of the Institute shall submit to the Secretary, a statement of complaint orally or in writing in Form DCI set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

A person who lodges a statement of complaint under paragraph (1) shall submit together with the complaint, documents in support of the claim and the prescribed fee.

Where the complaint is made orally, or otherwise, or the complainant cannot read or write, the complaint shall be recorded in writing by a designated officer of the Council.

There shall be paid to the Council such filing and other fees, including fees for service by the Committee of any notice or process, as shall be prescribed.

The Committee may, if it considers it to be in the interest of justice, or on grounds of financial hardship on the part of the applicant, waive all or part of the filing fees payable in any application.

Upon filing a complaint with the Secretary, the complainant shall serve a copy of the complaint, on the respondent within thirty days from the date of filing the complaint.

Any document required to be served under these Regulations shall, where practicable, be served personally on the person by delivering the document to the person or, if the person cannot be so served, shall be served by sending the document to the person's proper address by registered post or by other verifiable form of delivery.

The Secretary may, at the request of any party and on payment of such costs as the Committee may determine, serve a copy of the notice of the complaint and of any reply, together with any supporting documents, amendments or supplementary statements, written representations or other documents received from any party on all parties to the proceedings and if any person or body is subsequently enjoined as a party, upon that person or body.

Upon registering a complaint under regulation 5, the Secretary shall transmit a copy of the complaint to each member of the Committee and to the person whose conduct is the subject of investigation.

The Committee shall inform the complainant of its decision under paragraph 3(b) within fourteen days of its decision.

Where the Committee decides to investigate a complaint under paragraph 3(b), the Secretary shall notify the member against whom the complaint has been made of its decision and require him or her to respond to the complaint by the date notified date therein.

An order of the Committee dismissing a complaint under this paragraph shall be notified to the complainant and the respondent but shall not be a bar to a further complaint under the same grounds upon the discovery of new evidence which was not within the knowledge of the complainant.

For the purposes of paragraph (b), a complaint is repetitive if it is substantially the same as a previous complaint, whether made by or on behalf of the same or a different complainant, or if it concerns the same subject as a previous complaint;

Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Committee from investigating a complaint if it considers that it is in the public interest to do so.

Any person who is aggrieved by a decision to reject a complaint may make an application for review of that decision.

An application for review shall only be made upon the discovery of new information or evidence which was not within the knowledge of the complainant when the decision was made or for any other sufficient reason.

The Committee shall consider the application and may allow it.

The Committee shall determine the outcome of an application for review as soon as practicable and shall notify the applicant of the reason for its determination.

Where the Committee receives an application for review it may request any information from any person which it considers necessary to dispose of the application.

The Committee shall notify the applicant of its decision within seven of making the decision thereof.

A complainant may, in writing, withdraw a complaint at any stage of the proceedings and before any finding or recommendation is made, but such withdrawal shall not automatically terminate the investigation.

The Committee may, in its discretion, continue with the investigation of any complaint, if, on the basis of evidence before it, such investigation is in the public interest.

Where a complainant fails or neglects to respond to communication from the Committee within twelve months from the date of such communication, the Committee may deem the complaint date of such communication, the Committee may deem the complaint to have lapsed.

Provided that the Committee may on its own motion, commence the investigation of the complaint as if the same was a complaint requiring special investigation.

A respondent shall within fourteen days of receipt of the order under regulation 9(4) file with the Secretary his Statement of Response in Form DC2 set out in the schedule.

The respondent shall file together with his or her statement of response under paragraph (1) documents in support of his or her statement as he or she considers necessary.

The Secretary shall, upon receipt of the Statement of Response and supporting documents enter the fact in the register kept for the said purpose.

The Secretary shall, within seven days of receipt of the Statement of Response furnish the Committee with the Statement of Response and any supporting documents.

A hearing notice shall be issued by the Committee and served on all other parties to the proceedings not less than twenty one days before the date set for the hearing.

The Committee may alter the place and time of any hearing and the Committee shall give the parties not less than seven days notice of the alteration.

The Committee may, from time to time, on its own motion or on the application of a party to the proceedings, adjourn the hearing and if the date, place and time of the next hearing is announced in the presence of all the parties at the time of the allowing adjourning the hearing, no hearing notice shall be required to be issued to any party.

An oath may be administered by the person chairing the meeting of the Committee or by the Secretary.

Notices and summons of the Committee shall be issued under the hand of the Secretary and shall be deemed to have been issued by the Committee.

Proceedings before the Committee shall be conducted in English or Kiswahili.

The Committee shall, taking into account all the circumstances, grant the assistance of a competent interpreter free of charge to a party or witness who does not understand or speak the language used at the hearing or who is deaf.

The rulings of the Committee shall be in the English language but may be translated, on request by a party, into the Kiswahili language.

The Committee may receive or obtain information from such persons as it may deem proper, including, information from such persons as the Committee considers to posses knowledge or experience in matters relating to any complaint before it.

Where a complaint is not disposed of after the preliminary investigation, the Committee shall review the complaint with a view to initiating further investigations.

The Committee may on its own motion or on the application by a party to the proceedings give directions, including directions for the furnishing of further particulars or supplementary statements, as are necessary to enable the parties prepare for the hearing or assist the Committee determine the issues related to the hearing before it.

The Committee may take into account the need to protect any matter that relates to the intimate personal or financial circumstance of any party, is commercially sensitive, consists of information communicated or obtained in confidence or concerns national security and may order that all or part of the evidence of a person be heard in private or prohibit or restrict the publication of that evidence.

Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), all proceedings before the Committee shall be held in public.

The Committee shall not compel a person to give any evidence or produce any document or other material that the person could not be compelled to give or produce in a trial for an action in a court of law.

An application by a party for directions shall be made in writing to the Committee and shall, unless accompanied by the written consent of all parties, be served by the party seeking directions on all other parties to the proceedings.

If any party objects to the directions sought, the Committee shall consider the objection and if it considers it necessary, give the parties an opportunity to appear and be heard by it on the objection proceedings.

Where a party fails to comply with directions given under these Regulations, the Committee may, in addition to other powers available to it, before or at the hearing of the complaint dismiss the whole or part of the complaint, or, as the case may be, strike out the whole or part of a respondent's reply and where appropriate, direct that a party be excluded from participating in the hearing.

The Committee shall not dismiss, strike out or give any directions under paragraph (1) of this regulation unless it has served a notice on the party who has failed to comply with the direction, giving him an opportunity to show cause why the Committee should not give directions under paragraph (1) of this regulation.

A person on whom directions, including any summons, are served and who had no opportunity of objecting to the making of directions may apply to the Committee to vary or set aside the directions.

The Committee shall not vary or set aside any directions under paragraph (1) of this regulation without first notifying the person who applied for the directions and considering any representations made by that person.

A person who is summoned to give evidence before the Committee shall be given at least seven days' notice of the hearing.

A witness summons issued under this section shall be in Form DC4 set out in the Schedule.

Before determining an application under paragraph (a)(i) of this regulation, the Committee shall consider any representations made in writing submitted by that party in response to the notice of application and for the purpose of this regulation, the application and any reply shall be treated as representations in writing.

A party aggrieved by the decision of the Committee under paragraph (a)(i) may file an application within thirty days from the date of the decision for review of the order, and the Committee may within reasonable time review the order on such terms as it considers fit, if the Committee is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for non -attendance.

The chairperson shall, at the commencement of the hearing, explain the order of proceedings which the Committee proposes to adopt.

The Committee shall conduct the hearing such manner as it considers suitable for the determination of the application or the clarification of issues before it and generally in the interest of justice, avoid legal technicality and formality in its proceedings.

The parties shall be heard in such order as the Committee shall determine, and shall be entitled to give evidence, call witnesses, and address the Committee on both evidence and generally on the subject matter of the application.

Evidence before the Committee may be given orally or, if the Committee so orders, by affidavit or written statement, provided that the Committee may at any stage of the proceedings require the personal attendance of any deponent or author of a written statement.

The Committee may receive evidence of any fact which appears to it to be relevant to the application.

The Committee may, during the hearing and if it satisfied that it is just and reasonable to do so, permit a party to rely on grounds not stated in his notice of application or, as the case may be, his reply and to adduce any evidence not presented to the Commissioner before or at the time the Commissioner took the disputed decision.

The Committee may require any witness to give evidence on oath or affirmation and for that purpose it may administer an oath or affirmation in the prescribed form.

The Committee may of its own motion, or upon the application of any party, adjourn the inquiry upon such terms as it thinks fit.

Notice of an adjournment of the inquiry shall be given to the persons involved in the proceedings in writing by the Committee.

Before the Committee takes notice of any fact, information, opinion or policy or rule other than that which may be judicially noticed by a court, it shall notify the parties of its intention and afford them a reasonable opportunity to make representations with respect thereto.

Any party to the proceedings, may represent himself or be represented by an advocate of his choice.

A party who is represented by an advocate may, at any stage of the proceedings change his advocate upon giving notice to the Committee and his former advocate.

The party shall serve the notice of change of advocate on all other parties to the proceedings.

The decision of the Committee may be taken by a majority of the members present and the decision shall record whether it was unanimous or taken by a majority of the members present.

For the purposes of making the decision on the inquiry every member of the Committee has one vote, and, in the event of an equality of votes, the chairperson shall have a casting vote.

The decision of the Committee shall be in writing and may be read out at the end of the hearing or be reserved and shall be signed and dated by the chairperson and every member who heard the matter.

A dissenting opinion may be pronounced separately by the member who wrote it and shall be dated and signed by that member.

Every document containing a decision referred to in this regulation shall, as soon as may be reasonable, be entered in the register and the Committee shall send a copy of the entry to each party.

Every copy of an entry sent to the parties under paragraph (6) of this regulation shall be accompanied by a notification indicating the rights of the parties and of the time within which and place at which those rights may be exercised.

Where the decision of the Committee refers to any evidence which has been heard in private a summary of the decision, omitting such material as the Committee may direct, shall be entered in the register, but copies of the complete decision document shall be sent to the parties together with a copy of the entry.

Except where a decision is announced at the end of the hearing, it shall be treated as having been made on the date on which a copy of the document recording it is sent to the applicant.

Every order or determination of the Committee shall be made under the hand of chairperson or in his or her absence, by the person chairing the meeting at which the order or determination is made.

Every order or determination of the Committee bearing the signature of the person chairing the meeting shall be prima facie evidence that the order or determination is that of the Committee.

Before making any order under paragraph (1) of this regulation, the Committee shall send a notice to the party against whom the order is to be made, giving that party an opportunity to show cause why the order should not be made.

The Council shall send to each member and publish in two newspapers of national circulation, a notice of the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Council during which the election of the chairperson and six members of the Council under section 4(1)(a) and (b) of the Act shall be conducted.

The Council shall send the notice under paragraph (1) at least sixty days before the Annual General Meeting of the Institute.

The Council shall appoint a returning officer for the Appointment of purpose of conducting the elections under these Regulations. returning officer.

The Council shall not appoint a member as a returning officer or presiding officer under paragraph (1).

A presiding officer shall, subject to the general direction and control of the returning officer, have all the powers and may perform all the duties of such returning officer under these regulations.

The returning officer shall be responsible for the nomination process, overseeing the casting of votes, counting and announcing the final results of the elections under these regulations.

The Institute shall provide the returning officer and presiding officers with such facilities and support as they may require for the discharge of their functions under these Regulations.

The Council shall send to each member at least thirty days before the issuance of a notice under regulation 3, the prescribed nomination forms.

A person who meets the requirements of regulation 6 and who intends to vie for election as a member of the Council shall fill and sign the nomination forms in the manner specified in the form.

The nomination forms submitted to the Institute shall be opened at the offices of the Institute by the returning officer and verified by the Chief Executive Officer.

A returning officer shall, in consultation with the Chief Executive Officer, submit his decision to the nominee within a period of seven days after declaring a nomination form to be invalid.

Where a returning officer declares a nomination paper to be invalid, he shall record his decision and the reasons thereof on the nomination paper and append his signature thereto and shall return the nomination paper to the nominee who delivered the nomination paper within a period of seven days of the declaration.

The elections of the members of the Council shall be conducted at the Annual General Meeting of the Council.

The election shall be conducted by way of secret ballot and the winner shall be determined by a simple majority.

Each member shall have one vote.

Each member voting at the election shall specify in the manner prescribed in the ballot paper, the name of the candidate of their choice from among the list of candidates contained in the paper.

A person shall not write or make any other mark or sign on the ballot paper and shall, upon specifying the candidate of his choice, fold the paper so as to conceal the name of the candidate and cast his vote in the ballot boxes provided for the purpose of the conduct of the election.

Upon the conclusion of the casing of votes, the presiding officer shall, in the presence of the candidates and members, count the votes cast and announce the number of votes cast for each candidate.

The returning officer shall, upon counting all the votes cast, declare the candidates for whom the greatest number of votes has been cast as the chairperson and member of the Council respectively.

The presiding officer shall mark each ballot paper that is rejected under paragraph (1) with the word "rejected".

Where a candidate objects to the rejection of a ballot paper, the presiding officer shall mark the ballot paper with the words "rejection objected to".

The presiding officer shall mark every ballot paper which he counted but whose validity is disputed or questioned by a candidate with the word "disputed" but such ballot paper shall be treated as valid for the purpose of the election.

In the event of a tie in the number of votes cast in the case of the chairperson or in the case of the members of the council, where the tie would result in a greater number of persons than the vacancies in

the Council, subsequent elections shall be conducted with respect to the candidates with an equal number of votes.

The procedure set out of the conduct of elections under these regulations shall apply with respect to subsequent elections conducted under paragraph (1).

A candidate who is not satisfied with the manner in which the counting of votes is conducted may, upon the completion of the counting of votes, request the returning officer to recount the votes cast during the election.

The returning officer may conduct a recount but shall not conduct more than one recount.

The returning officer shall, upon the conduct of subsequent elections under regulation 13 or a recount under paragraph (1), announce the number of votes cast for each candidate and declare the elected as chairperson and member of the Council.

The declaration of the returning officer under paragraph (3) shall be final.

The returning officer shall prepare a report on the election and the results of a recount, if any, which shall be read at the Annual General Meeting of the Council.

The report shall, where applicable, include a statement on the number of ballot papers rejected or disputed under regulation 12.

The Cabinet Secretary shall publish the names of the Election process members of the Council in the Gazette within a period of fourteen days from the date of the elections.

The Council shall, at least one hundred and twenty days to the election, appoint the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to conduct the elections.

The Committee shall be constituted at least one hundred and fifty days before the election.

The quorum of the Committee shall be at least three members.

The Committee shall determine a dispute before it within ten days from the date the dispute is lodged.

A person aggrieved by a decision of the Committee under this regulation may appeal to the High Court.

The election of the Chairman and members of the Council shall be held between every second Wednesday and second Friday in January in every third year.

The election shall commence at 12:00 noon on the second Wednesday and conclude at 12:00 noon on the second Friday.

A member of the Institute may, upon inspection of the register under regulation 9, request the Registrar to rectify an entry in the register which is inaccurate, outdated, incomplete or misleading.

The Registrar shall, within twenty-one days after the publication of the register under regulation 9, submit the register of members to the body responsible for conducting the election.

A person aggrieved by a decision of the Registrar in relation to the accuracy of the information contained in the register of members may lodge a dispute before the Committee.

The Chief Executive Officer shall, at least ninety days before the election, issue a notice of vacancy in the Council.

The notice under subregulation (1) shall be published in at least two newspapers of national circulation and the website of the Institute.

The duly completed nomination Form shall be accompanied by an intent-to-vie Form set out in the Schedule.

The intent-to-vie Form shall be lodged with the Institute not later than the date fixed for submission of the nomination Form.

The electoral body shall, at least sixty days before the election, verify the nominations received under paragraph 13(2) and determine if an aspirant is eligible to contest at the election in accordance with regulation 13(1).

The electoral body shall, on the sixtieth day to the election, notify the members of Institute of the candidates approved to contest in the election and publish the list of candidates on the Institute’s website.

Any person dissatisfied with any decision of the electoral body under this regulation may within two days from the date of notification of such decision, lodge a dispute with the Committee.

Any person may within two days from the date of the decision of the Committee, seek a review of the decision of the Committee, where there is an error apparent on the face of the nomination Form.

A candidate may within thirty days before the date of the election, withdraw his candidature in writing to the electoral body.

The electoral body shall notify the members of Institute of the withdrawal of candidature received pursuant to subregulation (1) and publish a notice of withdrawal of candidature on the Institute’s website, within forty-eight hours of receipt of the withdrawal.

Where only one candidate declares interest for any vacant position in the Council, such candidate shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

The electoral body shall, issue a certificate of election to the candidate elected unopposed under subregulation (1).

A person who is aggrieved by the results of an election may, within seven days after the date of the declaration of the results, lodge a dispute with the Committee.

A person who is aggrieved by the decision of the Committee may appeal against that decision to the High Court.

Any person who commits an offence under subregulation (1) shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand shillings or both.

The Council shall, at least one hundred and twenty days to the election, appoint the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to conduct the elections.

The Committee shall be constituted at least one hundred and fifty days before the election.

The quorum of the Committee shall be at least three members.

The Committee shall determine a dispute before it within ten days from the date the dispute is lodged.

A person aggrieved by a decision of the Committee under this regulation may appeal to the High Court.

The election of the Chairman and members of the Council shall be held between every second Wednesday and second Friday in January in every third year.

The election shall commence at 12:00 noon on the second Wednesday and conclude at 12:00 noon on the second Friday.

A member of the Institute may, upon inspection of the register under regulation 9, request the Registrar to rectify an entry in the register which is inaccurate, outdated, incomplete or misleading.

The Registrar shall, within twenty-one days after the publication of the register under regulation 9, submit the register of members to the body responsible for conducting the election.

A person aggrieved by a decision of the Registrar in relation to the accuracy of the information contained in the register of members may lodge a dispute before the Committee.

The Chief Executive Officer shall, at least ninety days before the election, issue a notice of vacancy in the Council.

The notice under subregulation (1) shall be published in at least two newspapers of national circulation and the website of the Institute.

The duly completed nomination Form shall be accompanied by an intent-to-vie Form set out in the Schedule.

The intent-to-vie Form shall be lodged with the Institute not later than the date fixed for submission of the nomination Form.

The electoral body shall, at least sixty days before the election, verify the nominations received under paragraph 13(2) and determine if an aspirant is eligible to contest at the election in accordance with regulation 13(1).

The electoral body shall, on the sixtieth day to the election, notify the members of Institute of the candidates approved to contest in the election and publish the list of candidates on the Institute’s website.

Any person dissatisfied with any decision of the electoral body under this regulation may within two days from the date of notification of such decision, lodge a dispute with the Committee.

Any person may within two days from the date of the decision of the Committee, seek a review of the decision of the Committee, where there is an error apparent on the face of the nomination Form.

A candidate may within thirty days before the date of the election, withdraw his candidature in writing to the electoral body.

The electoral body shall notify the members of Institute of the withdrawal of candidature received pursuant to subregulation (1) and publish a notice of withdrawal of candidature on the Institute’s website, within forty-eight hours of receipt of the withdrawal.

Where only one candidate declares interest for any vacant position in the Council, such candidate shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

The electoral body shall, issue a certificate of election to the candidate elected unopposed under subregulation (1).

A person who is aggrieved by the results of an election may, within seven days after the date of the declaration of the results, lodge a dispute with the Committee.

A person who is aggrieved by the decision of the Committee may appeal against that decision to the High Court.