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Article 39
 

Rectification of Electoral Register during election time



  1. The Electoral Register for each election shall be the Electoral Register closed on the first day of the second month before the date of call of the election.

  2. Local councils and consulates shall keep a consultation service of election lists in force in their respective community or area of jurisdiction within eight days from the sixth day following the call of the election.

  3. Within the aforesaid delay any person may file a petition to the Electoral Register Office’s competent Delegation about his registered census data. Provided that the only petitions admissible shall be those for correction of errors in personal data, or about change of abode within the same constituency or for non-registration of the petitioner in any section of the constituency’s electoral register to which he is legally entitled to be registered. Provided further that no petitions showing a change of residence to a different constituency after the limit date for closure of the electoral register for the relevant election shall taken either into consideration. In this case the interested person must exercise his right of petition in the section corresponding to his former place of abode.

  4. Candidates’ representatives may also challenge within the aforesaid delay the election register of constituencies having recorded in the preceding six months a significant and not justified increase in the number of resident that has given rise to the notification provided for in section 30.c).

  5. Petitions may be lodged directly with the competent provincial delegations of the Electoral Register Office or through the local council or consulate, who shall forward them forthwith to the relevant Delegation.

  6. Provincial Delegations of the Electoral Register Office shall adjudge within three days any such petitions and cause the appropriate rectifications to be made available to the general public not later than the seventeenth day following call of the election. Said decisions must also be notified to all petitioners and to the local councils and consulates concerned.

  7. The Electoral Register Office shall send to each elector a registration card with the updated data of his entry in the Register, as well as the polling ward and polling bureau where he is to vote, and shall also notify the electors concerned of any changes in wards, polling stations or polling bureaus referred to in Section 24 of this Institutional Act.


 SECT. 39 AS AMENDED BY SECT. 17 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28