ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (APP):Election Comm
ission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday asked the Members of the Parliament and Provincial Assemblies to submit to the Election Comm
ission by 31st December, 2024, yearly
Statements of Assets and Liabilities including their spouse and dependent children as on the preceding thirtieth day of June on Form-B for the financial year 2023-24.
According to the ECP statement issued here, the subm
ission being a mandatory requirement under Section 137 of the Elections Act, 2017, which is reproduced be
low: -“137. Subm
ission of statement of assets and
liabilities. —
(1) Every Member of an Assembly and Senate shall submit to the Comm
ission, on or before 31st December each year, a copy of his statement of assets and
liabilities including assets and
liabilities of his spouse and dependent children as on the preceding thirtieth day of June on Form-B.
(2) The Comm
ission, on the first day of January each year through a press releas
e, shall publish the names of Members who failed to submit the requisite statement of assets and
liabilities within the period specified under sub-section (1).
(3) The Comm
ission shall, on the sixteenth day of January, by an order suspend the membership of a Member of an Assembly and Senate who fails to submit the statement of assets and
liabilities by the fifteenth day of January and such Member shall cease to function till he files the statement of assets and
liabilities.
(4) Where a Member submits the statement of assets and
liabilities under this section which is found to be false in material particulars, he may, within one hundred and twenty days from the date subm
ission of the statement, be proceeded against for committing the offence of corrupt practice.”
The prescribed Form-B along with instructions / guidelines prepared in this regard can be obtained free of cost from the Election Comm
ission Secretariat, Islamabad, offices of Provincial Election Comm
issioners of respective Province, Senate Secretariat, National Assembly Secretariat and Secretariats of concerned Provincial Assemblies.
Moreover, Form-B can also be downloaded from the ECP’s Website i.e. www.ecp.gov.pk.
