The functions of presiding officer and member of polling bureaus are compulsory. Provided that they may not be discharged by persons standing as candidates.
The appointment of presiding officers and members of polling station bureaus shall be notified to the appointees within the following three days. Upon receipt of said notification appointees shall also receive for the discharge of their duties a handbook of instructions duly supervised by the Central Electoral Commission and approved by a decision of the relevant Self-Governing Community’ regional Government.
Laymen appointed as presiding officer or members of polling station bureaus may within seven days lay before the Judiciary District Electoral Commission a reasonable and duly documented statement of the causes that prevent them from accepting the appointment. The Commission shall adopt within the five following days a resolution against which there shall be no appeal and, where appropriate, duly notify the appellant’s replacement to the first substitute. Ineligibility under the provisions of this present Act shall be in any case a justified cause for non-acceptance. The exercise by Judiciary District Electoral Commissions of their functions shall in any case be deemed without prejudice to the Central Electoral Commission’s powers to unify interpretation criteria.
If at a later time one of the persons so appointed is unable to report for discharging his functions, he must so notify the Judiciary District Commission and furnish it with the adequate justification within seventy-two hours at least before the beginning of the event he was to attend. Should the cause of incapacity arise after expiry of said term, the Commission must be immediately notified and in any case before the time at which the Bureau is to be constituted. In this case the Commission shall inform the corresponding substitute member if there is enough time to do so and shall, if necessary, appoint another person.
For the purposes of Section 101 of this Act Judiciary District Electoral Commissions shall notify to the relevant judges before the polling day the identification data of the persons, both full members and substitutes, composing the bureaus.
2. AS AMENDED BY SECT.9 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13 3. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 8 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28 4. AND 5, RENUMBERED BY SECT.10 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991. FORMER 3. AND 4.
