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Section 38
 

Promulgation of Constituency Nominations



The Constituency Returning Officer shall arrange the approved constituency nominations under serial numbers in the order stipulated in Section 30 subsection (3), third and fourth sentences, of the Federal Elections Act and in the notice issued by the Land Returning Officer pursuant to Section 43 subsection (2) and promulgate them. Parties for which a Land list but not a constituency nomination has been approved shall be allocat-ed a blank number. The promulgation shall contain the details stipulated in Section 34 subsection (1), second sentence, for each constituency nomination; in place of the date of birth, however, only the year of birth of each candidate is to be stated. If a candidate provides evidence to the Constituency Returning Officer before the end of the submission period that a blocking note relating to him or her is contained in the population register in accordance with Section 51 subsection (1) of the Federal Registration Act, an address has to be indicated where the candidate may be contacted, instead of indicating the address of his or her main place of residence; indicating a post office box shall not be sufficient. The Constituency Returning Officer shall immediately inform the Land Returning Of-ficer and the Federal Returning Officer about the address where the candidate may be contacted. The Federal Returning Officer shall publish the contents of the Constituency Returning Officers’ promulgations in the electoral area.