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Article 30
 

§ 1 Soldiers performing basic or temporary terms of military service, those serving as candidates for professional soldiering or those undertaking military training and exercises, as well as conscripts performing their military service in civil defence units beyond their place of residence, shall be added, on their request, to the roll of voters of their choice created for the locality in which they are serving, subject to § 2. The request shall be submitted between 21 and 14 days before election day, unless the person referred to in the first sentence, came to the place of their current accommodation after this date. The application shall specify the personal data referred to in Article. 26 § 7.


§ 2 In the elections to bodies representing local government and elections for the mayor the voters referred to in § 1 shall be entered into the roll of voters, as appropriate, in the territory of the local government or municipalities in which elections for mayor are conducted.


§ 3 The provisions of § 1 and 2 shall apply mutandis mutandis to police officers serving in quartered units, functional officers of Government Protection Bureau, Border Guards, State Fire Service and Prison Service, serving in barracks.


§ 4 Commanders of military units, commanders of civil defense units and commanders of units and police superiors Government Security Bureau officers, Border Guard, State Fire Service and Prison Service are obliged to provide soldiers, state emergency service workers, policemen and officers of the possibility of exercising the rights arising from the provision § 1.


§ 5 The Minister of National Defence, the minister responsible for internal affairs and the Minister of Justice, each within their jurisdiction, after consultation with the National Electoral Commission, shall determine how to fulfill the obligations referred to in § 4, taking into account the need for the possibility to exercise the functions of members of electoral commissions and stewards by voters referred to in § 1 and 3.