Section 37

to the Election Commission, in the case of an election of a person to be a member of the Dewan Rakyat, a

Legislative Assembly, the city council of the federal capital or of any other election that the Election

Commission may be authorized to conduct; or

in the case of any other election, to the State Authority—

whether any corrupt or illegal practice has or has not been proved to have been committed by or with the knowledge and consent of any candidate at the election, or by his agent, and the nature of such corrupt or illegal practice, if any; and

Before any person, not being a party to an election petition nor a candidate on behalf of whom the seat is claimed by an election petition, is reported by an Election Judge or the Registrar of the Federal Court under this section, the Election Judge or the

Registrar of the Federal Court shall give such person the right to be represented by counsel and an opportunity of being heard and of giving and calling evidence to show why he should not be so reported.

When an Election Judge or the Registrar of the Federal Court reports that a corrupt or illegal practice has been committed by any person, that person shall be subject to the same incapacities as if at the date of the said report he had been convicted of that practice and a person shall be subject to the same incapacities if he was a candidate at the election and the Election Judge or the Registrar of the Federal Court reports that such corrupt or illegal practice was committed with his knowledge and consent or by his agent.

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The Election Commission or the State Authority, as the case may be, shall cause a copy of such report to be published in the Gazette, and it shall be the duty of every registering officer forthwith to peruse the report and forthwith to delete from the register or list of electors assigned to him the name of every person appearing from the report to be incapable of voting at an election.

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