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Section I6
 

  1. The principal electoral committee shall strike from the list, in the order indicated in this subsection, the name of a candidate:


(a) who has not been described in accordance with the provisions of section H 8;


(b) who has not submitted a declaration of consent to the nomination;


(c) whose place of residence is situated outside the European part of the Netherlands, if no agent has been designated;


(d) who will not attain the age required for membership of the assembly for which the election is being held during its forthcoming term of office;


(e) who is not, in the case of an election to a provincial or municipal council, a resident of the relevant province or municipality and who has not declared that he intends to take up residence in the said province or municipality if appointed;


(f) who has declared that if appointed he intends to take up residence in the province or municipality, but who is also discovered to have made a similar declaration for an election to a different provincial or municipal council;


(g) who appears on more than one of the lists submitted to the principal electoral committee, unless they are lists of candidates as referred to in section H 2, subsection 1, first sentence;


(h) in respect of whom an extract from the register of deaths or a copy of his death certificate has been submitted;


(i) who appears on the list after the maximum number of names permitted.


 



  1. The principal electoral committee shall strike from the list, in the order indicated in this subsection, the appellation of a political grouping, if:


a) there is no declaration as referred to in section H 3, subsection 2 or 3;


(b) the appellation appears at the top of more than one of the lists submitted to the principal electoral committee.


 



  1. If the appellation of a political grouping does not correspond to that under which it has been registered, the principal electoral committee shall alter it ex proprio motu to make it so correspond.