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Article 15
 

(1) A political party's application for the purposes of registration may include a request for the registration of descriptions to be used on nomination or ballot paper.


(2) The Commission shall register the description supplied unless in its opinion the description is:


(a) the same as a registered description of another political party, member of a political party or candidate which has been registered before;


(b) likely to be confused by voters with a registered description of a political party, member of a political party or candidate which has been registered before;


(c) obscene or offensive; and


(d) of such a character that its publication would be likely to amount to the commission of an offence.


(3) For the purposes of this article "description" means the name of the party and the acronym in that language or languages that the party chooses.