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Article 223
 

Aggregate counting at elections to the European Parliament


1. For the purposes of Sections 103, 104, 105, 106 and 107 of this present Act Provincial Electoral Commissions shall be the competent Electoral Commissions.


2. After the counting representatives and election proxies of candidates may lodge within two days such claims and petitions as they think fit, which shall be determined by Provincial Electoral Commissions within two further days.


3. On completion of the preceding operations Provincial Electoral Commissions shall forward to the Central Electoral Commission not later than the fifteenth days following the election a certificate signed by their chairman and secretary of the election results in the respective province, with an explicit mention of the number of voters, valid votes, void ballot papers, blank votes and votes polled by each candidature.


 SECT.223 ADDED BY SECT. 2 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/ 1987, OF APRIL 2