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Supreme Court, membership of the House of Representatives or the Senate of such person
shall terminate as from the date of cessation of performance of duties.
A Member of the House of Representatives or Senator who ceases performing
duties under paragraph four shall not be included in the total number of existing members
of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may be.
This section shall also apply mutatis mutandis to an election of members of
the local assembly or a local administrator. However, the power of the Supreme Court shall
vest in the Court of Appeal, and the order or judgment of the Court of Appeal shall be final.
The trial and adjudication of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal under
this section shall be in accordance with the rules of the plenary meeting of the Supreme
Court, which shall adopt the inquisitorial system, and shall be done in an expeditious
manner.
Section 227. During the period in which a Royal Decree calling an election of
Members of the House of Representatives or a selection of Senators or a Notification calling
for a referendum is in force, no Election Commissioner shall be arrested, detained or
summoned by a warrant for inquiry, except where permission of the Election Commission is
obtained or where the arrest is made in flagrante delicto.
In the case where an Election Commissioner is arrested in flagrante delicto,
or where an Election Commissioner is arrested or detained in other cases, a report shall be
submitted forthwith to the Chairperson of the Election Commission, and the Chairperson
shall have the power to order the release of the person so arrested, but if the Chairperson
of the Election Commission is arrested or detained, the remaining Election Commission shall
have the power to order a release.
Part 3
Ombudsmen
Section 228. There shall be three Ombudsmen appointed by the King upon
the advice of the Senate from persons selected by the Selection Committee.
The selected persons must be persons with evident integrity and with
knowledge and expertise, two of whom shall have experience related to the administration
of State affairs in the position not lower than a Director-General or an equivalent head of
government agency or a head of a State agency at least comparable to a department as
prescribed by the Selection Committee, provided that they must hold such position for a
period of not less than five years, and one of whom shall have experience in the operation
of a public undertaking for a period of not less than twenty years.
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