Updating of Electoral Register by the Electoral Register Office

1. Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Register Office shall, on the basis of the data referred to in the preceding sections, keep freely accessible at any time to interested parties the updated Electoral Register with the data referred to in the preceding sections. Access may be gained through local councils, consulates or directly at Provincial Delegation premises.

2. Representatives of lists of candidates or parties, federations and electors’ groupings may challenge the electors’ register of any constituencies showing a significant and not justified increase in the number of residents that has led to the notification referred in Section 30.c), within five days from the moment in which they have gained knowledge of said notification. 

Appeals about registration data are to be lodged by Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Register Office, which shall pronounce on them within five days following reception of the petition. 

Local councils and consulates shall immediately forward any such petitions to the relevant Provincial Delegation of Electoral Register Office.

3. The Electoral Register Office shall make all appropriate arrangements to facilitate the disposal of consultations and petitions by local councils and consulates.

4. Petitions against decisions on this matter by the Electoral Register Office’s Delegations shall be dealt with by the preferential and summary procedure contemplated in Section 53, subsection 2, of the Constitution.

 FORMER 1 DELETED BY SECT. 15 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011
 1., 3. AND 4. RENUMBERED BY SECT. 16 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011. FORMER 2., 4. AND
5, RESPECTIVELY.
 2. RENUMBERED AND AMENDED BY SECT. 16 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011. FORMER 3.