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Article 16
 
Cases of Non-Participation of Citizens in Voting.


The citizens, who are in airports or travelling by planes, or are in trains or railway stations, or in expeditions in the voting day, shall not participate in voting.




If no Precinct Election Commissions are established in the ships, which navigate on the voting day in accordance with Article 35.4 of this Code, the citizens being on these ships do not participate in voting.



 



If no Precinct Election Commissions are established according to Article 35.4 of this Code on the voting day on oil and gas production platforms (hereinafter the oil platforms) located in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, the citizens being on such platforms shall not participate in voting.



 



If neither Azerbaijani Diplomatic Representation nor Consulate is in the foreign country, or no Precinct Election Commission is established according to Article 35.6 of this Code in the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Representation or Consulate, the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan being in this foreign country shall not participate in voting.



 



No voting shall be held on the Election Day for the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan being in foreign countries, during elections of deputies to Milli Majlis or municipal elections.



 



No voting shall be held on the Election Day in the ships navigating on the election day, hospitals, sanatoriums, rest homes, oil platforms located in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, during elections of deputies to Milli Majlis or municipal elections.