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Section 86
 

Public Announcements



(1) The public announcements prescribed by the Federal Elections Act and by the present Regulations shall be made by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in the Federal Bulletin, the Federal Returning Officer in the Federal Bulletin, the Land Returning Officers in the State Bulletin or in the ministerial or official gazette of the Land Government or the Interior Ministry, the Constituency Returning Officers and the district administrations in the official gazettes or newspapers generally designated for announcements of the districts and urban districts of the constituency, the local authorities of municipalities in the manner customary in each locality.


(2) For the public announcement pursuant to Section 5 subsection (3), a notice posted at or in the entrance to the conference building and indicating that the meeting is open to the public shall suffice.


(3) The contents of the public announcements prescribed by the Federal Elections Act and by the present Regulations may additionally be published on the internet. In doing so, the integrity and completeness of the release and its allocation to the source have to be ensured by state-of-the-art technology. Instead of an address, only the town of resi-dence shall be indicated. Personal data in online releases of public announcements pursuant to Section 38 and Section 43 subsection (1) must be deleted not later than six months after the final election result has been publicly announced, those in public announcements pursuant to Section 79 subsection (1) and Section 84 subsection (3) not later than six months after the end of the electoral period.