Functions of the Electoral Register Office

1. The Electoral Register Office shall be responsible for:

a) Coordinating the process of formation of the electoral register, with a power in this capacity of giving instructions to city councils and consulates, as well as to officers of the Civil Register and of the Register of Convicts and Persons at Large.

b) Supervising compilation of the electoral register, for which purpose it shall be empowered to inspect city councils and consulates.

c) Controlling and supervising ex officio all entries and cancellations made by the competent authorities and drawing up a national card index of elector. To this end it shall notify to the Central Electoral Commission the results of reports, inspections and, whenever this is the case, of the administrative proceedings it may have instituted about any alterations in the registers of the constituencies that have caused a significant and unjustified change in the residents’ number.

d) Deleting multiple registrations of one elector that have not been detected by city councils or consulates, in the conditions laid down in Section 33.

e) Drawing up provisional and final election lists.

f) Adjudicating petitions against acts of the authorities taking part in electoral register operations and in particular those raised on account of undue exclusion or inclusion of any person in the election lists. The adjudication shall close the administrative stage of petitions procedure.

 1. C) AS AMENDED BY SECT.9 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28