Election Petition Rules 2017

Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato said this when granting a request made by the Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia during the two-day judges’ workshop on election petition.

Sir Salamo made a request to Commissioner Gamato to provide those documents to the Court registry from all the electorates for their records in preparation for the upcoming election petitions.

“We will make it available this election,” Gamato told the judges.

The request was made after lawyers gave a perspective of election petitions during the workshop.

These new rules replace the 2002 election petition rules.

By instrument dated the 26 June, 2017, Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia determined that as of July 3, 2017, the Election Petition rules 2002 ceased.

And pursuant to rule 2(2) of the National Court Election Petition rules 2017, the Chief Justice reappointed Justice Collin Makail as the Judge Administrator of the National Court Elections Track.

A security cost fee of K5000 remains for all election petition matters with a filing fee of K1000.