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Article 33
 

33.-(1) Not later than noon eleven days prior to election day must announcements of candidatures be registered with the chairman of the election committee of the nomination district. Registration must be done by completing and filing a form approved by the Minister for the Interior.

(2) The registration form shall be signed by the candidate and state the full name, CRS number, occupation and address of the candidate. If the candidate does not want his full name to appear on the ballot paper, it must be indicated how the name should appear. A candidate's last name or middle name and at least one first name or initial shall always be stated. Only middle and last names which a candidate is entitled to use under the Names Act, or middle names reported to the national register, shall be stated on the ballot paper. Instead of the first name, a name by which the candidate is known and which is derived from the first name, may be stated. The registration shall further state the name and address of a voter in the nomination district who the election committee may approach if the registration form is insufficiently completed.

(3) Candidates wishing to stand for a party shall state so in the registration form.

(4) Candidates standing as independents shall state so in the registration form. Furthermore, the registration form shall be signed by the supporters of the candidate and state the name, CRS number and address of each supporter. Names and addresses of supporters are open to public inspection.

(5) He who files a candidate's registration form is entitled to a receipt which states the time of filing.