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Article 460
 

460.1. The notif cations will be made no later than three working days after the decisions that motivate them were issued and will take effect on the same day as the noti f cation is made.


460.2. When the decision entails a citation or a deadline for a transaction, it will be personally notified at least three working days before the day and time when the procedure or hearing will take place. The other notifcations will be made in documents which will be fixed in the offices of the Institute or of the body which issued the decision in question. In any case, the notifications directed to an authority or party body will be made by official notification.


460.3. The personal notifications are made during weekdays and working hours to the interested party or through the person authorized by the interested party for this purpose.


460.4. The notif cations are personal when this is determined, but in any case the first notif cation to any of the parties will be made personally.


460.5. When a personal notif cation should be made, the person giving the noti f cation must verify, by any means, that the person to be notified has his permanent address in the given building and, after that, the person carrying out the notification will deliver an authorized copy of the corresponding decision, which will include the reasons for it.


460.6. If the interested party is not found at his permanent address, a citation will be left with any of the persons found at this address, which will contain:


a) The name of the body that issued the decision to be notified;


b) The information of the file it was based;


c) An extract from the decision that is notified;


d) The day and time when the citation is left and the name of the person that it should be delivered to, and


e) An indication of the time during the following day when the person should expect the notification.


460.7. The following day, at the time specified in the citation, the person giving the notification will again visit the address and if the interested party is not found, the noti f cation will be made by publication at the Court’s office, of which the corresponding reason will be included in the file.


460.8. If the person who is sought refuses to receive the notification, or if the persons found at the address refuse to receive the citation, or if nobody is found at this place, the notification will be fixed to the entrance door, and a notification will also be made by publication at the Court’s office, including the reason for this in the file.


460.9. The personal notifications can be carried out by the appearance of the interested party, of his representative, or of a person authorized to receive notifications before the corresponding body.


460.10. The notification of the decisions that end the investigation procedure will be personal, will be made no later than three working days after they are issued, and a certified copy of the decision will be delivered to the complainant and the respondent.


460.11. The deadlines are counted moment by moment and if they are set out in days, these will be considered as twenty-four hours. During the electoral processes, all days and hours are working days. In the case of the complaints f led before the electoral process the deadlines are counted by working days, and in the case of the complaints presented once the electoral process has started the deadlines are counted by calendar days.