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Article 40
 

(1) Any person, who finds on polling day that he or she has been entered in the list of removed persons shall have the right to vote if the said person presents a certificate to the effect that the grounds have lapsed or that there are no grounds for entry of the said person in the list or if the said person presents himself or herself in the voting section according to the permanent address in the cases referred to in Items 4, 5 and 6 of Article 38 (2) herein.


(2) The certificate referred to in Paragraph (1) shall be issued by the municipality mayor, borough mayor, mayoralty mayor or by the lieutenant mayor on polling day according to a standard form endorsed by the Central Election Commission, after conduct of a check of existence or absence of grounds for entry of the person on the roll. Any refusal to issue the certificate shall be reasoned.


(3) Upon presentation of the certificate or of the identity document in the cases referred to in Items 4, 5 and 6 of Article 38 (2) herein and of a declaration completed in a standard form to the effect that he or she has not voted and will not vote elsewhere, the voter shall be excluded from the list of removed persons and all particulars thereof shall be entered on the supplementary page of the electoral roll by the chairperson of the section election commission according to the permanent address thereof.


The certificate shall be attached to the electoral roll, and the grounds for entry shall be noted in the column designated aNotesa as acertificate issued by the municipal administrationa.


(4) Any refusal by the section election commission to effect an additional entry shall be in writing, shall be served upon the person concerned and may be disputed before the constituency election commission or municipal election commission, which shall forthwith pronounce on the complaint.