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Article 36
 

(1) Any voter, whereof the permanent and present addresses are located in different nucleated settlements, may request to be entered on the electoral roll according to the present address thereof not later than 14 days in advance of polling day. Any such request shall be submitted in writing to the municipality mayor, the borough mayor, the mayoralty mayor or to the lieutenant mayor and shall state the Standard Public Registry Personal Number of the voter, the type and number of the identity document thereof and signature, or by an electronic application via the Internet site of the relevant municipality exercising jurisdiction over the present address of the person.


(2) Upon elections of municipal councillors and of mayors, the request referred to in Paragraph (1) shall be submitted subject to the condition that the voter has had a present address in the relevant nucleated settlement during the last six months in advance of polling day. The request referred to in Paragraph (1) shall furthermore state the date of the present-address registration.


(3) (Amended, SG No. 98/2014, effective 28.11.2014) The authority referred to in Article 23 (1) herein shall transmit information on the requests submitted, referred to in Paragraph (1), to the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works not later than twelve days in advance of polling day for automated entry of the voter on the electoral rolls according to the present address and the removal thereof from the electoral roll according to the permanent address.


(4) A non-resident voting certificate may not be issued to a voter after the said voter is entered on the electoral roll according to the present address.