Registration of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus is performed by the Central Commission whereas registration of candidates for deputy is performed by the respective circuit or territorial electoral commission.

Registration of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus begins 35 days and ends 25 days prior to the elections, whereas registration of candidates for deputy begins 40 days and end 30 days prior to the elections.

In certain cases the term of registration of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus and for deputy of the House of Representatives may be extended by a motivated decision of the Central Commission, but by not more than five days whereas the term of registration of candidates for deputy of local Councils of Deputies may be extended for the same period of time by the respective circuit, territorial or superior electoral commission.

A person nominated as a candidate for President of the Republic of Belarus, in the order established in part three of Article 61 of this Code, prior to registration shall submit to the Central Commission the following documents:

a written declaration of consent to run for the President of the Republic of Belarus;

biographical data of the person nominated as a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus, in the form established by the Central Commission. If a person nominated as a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus had and/or has previous convictions, the information thereabout is indicated in this biographical data;

copies of documents confirming information about education, about the place of work, position (occupation) of the person nominated as a candidate the President of the Republic of Belarus, mentioned in the nomination documents;

declaration on incomes and property of the person nominated as a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus, his spouse and full-age close relatives residing with him and sharing a common household, according to the form approved by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus.If there are no incomes of the person nominated as a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus within the declared period, the source of means of subsistence shall be indicated in the declaration.Persons who submitted declarations on incomes and property are entitled to make corrections therein before the mentioned declarations are sent for inspection to the state bodies and organizations.Corrections are made via crossing out incorrect data and indicating of true data or additional data, or by submitting a revised declaration.

A person nominated as a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus and having created the electoral fund submits to the Central Commission a financial report on spending means of this fund, within the time period established by part twenty-four of Article 48¹ of this Code.

The Central Commission, respective circuit, territorial electoral commission checks the conformity of the order of nomination of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies to the requirements of this Code and the accuracy of the information in the documents submitted for registration.

A person nominated as a candidate the President of the Republic of Belarus is entitled to familiarize himself with the materials of verification of documents submitted for the registration.

Decision on registration of a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus is taken if the documents mentioned in parts 4 and 5 of this Article are available and protocols of regional and the Minsk City commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus confirming availability of not less than 100 thousand signatures of voters of the Republic of Belarus for the nomination of the candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus.

Decision on registration of a candidate for deputy is taken at the presence of the respective documents specified in Article 66 of this Code submitted to the circuit, territorial electoral commission prior to the beginning of registration.

The Central Commission, respective circuit or territorial electoral commission shall, after verifying the compliance of the order of nomination of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus or for deputy with the requirements of this Code, take decision on registration of candidates for the President or deputy and issue, within two days after the registration, respective certificates to the candidates.

The protocol on registration of candidates for deputy of the House of Representatives, regional and the Minsk City Council of Deputies is submitted respectively to the Central Commission, regional and the Minsk City territorial electoral commission.

Powers of the person nominated as candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus who is a member of the Central Commission, or territorial or precinct commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus are deemed to be terminated from the time of his registration as candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus.

Powers of the person nominated as candidate for deputy of the House of Representatives, local Council of Deputies, who is a member of the Central Commission, circuit, territorial or precinct electoral commission are deemed to be terminated from the moment of his registration as candidate for deputy.

The Central Commission, circuit or territorial electoral commission shall, not later than on the fourth day after registration of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus or deputies, send to mass media for publication an information on registration with indication, in relation to each candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus or deputies, of the surname, name and patronymic, date of birth, profession, position (occupation), place of work and residence and party membership, as well as the data on incomes and property in the volume being determined by the Central Commission or otherwise inform the voters thereabout.If a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus or deputies had a previous conviction, the data thereabout is indicated in the information.While holding elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Central Commission also sends to the press for publication the data on incomes and property of the persons specified in indent five of part four of this Article.