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Article 43
 

(1) (Supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) Each voter may request elimination of any omissions and errors in the electoral roll, made in respect of the said voter, by an application in writing to the municipality mayor, borough mayor, mayoralty mayor or the lieutenant mayor. A national of another Member State of the European Union, who has been entered on an electoral roll, may be removed on the basis of an application in writing submitted to the municipality mayor, borough mayor, mayoralty mayor or the lieutenant mayor.


(2) The applications shall be received by the competent administration not later than seven days in advance of polling day.


(3) The mayor or the lieutenant mayor shall examine any such application within two days and shall pronounce thereon by a reasoned decision, which shall forthwith be made public in a public place.


(4) The decision referred to in Paragraph (3) shall be appealable before the competent administrative court within two days after being made public. The court shall examine the appeal and shall pronounce by a judgment within two days after the receipt of the said appeal, sitting in public session with the appellant and the mayor being summoned. The judgment of the court shall forthwith be made public and shall be unappealable.