Special Lists

(1) Special lists shall be administered by local authorities, municipal authorities, metropolitan authorities, authorities of municipal districts or municipal sections of territorially subdivided statutory towns and municipal authorities of the City of Prague (hereinafter only “municipal authorities”) for all voters not having permanent address⁵⁾ within their administration territory or unable to vote in the election districts in whose permanent lists they are registered, and

a) performing their compulsory military service or alternate military service within the territory of a municipality, a district of the City of Prague or a municipal section of a territorially subdivided statutory town, b) staying in a hospital, maternity home, sanatorium, social care institution or similar institution or facility located within the territory of a municipality, a district of the City of Prague or a municipal section of a territorially subdivided statutory town, c) held in a police cell, under arrest or serving a term of imprisonment^5a) within the territory of a municipality, a district of the City of Prague or a municipal section of a territorially subdivided statutory town, d) using an electoral card (Article 6a).

(2) The voters specified in Section 1, Subsection a) shall be registered in a special list by the local authority in accordance with information received from the relevant commanding officer. The voters specified in Section 1, Subsections b) and c) shall be registered in a special list by a local authority in accordance with information received from the relevant institute, organisation or facility. All such information shall be forwarded no later than 7 days before the date of the elections and updated as necessary.

(3) The commanding officer or the relevant institute, organisation or facility administrating the special list shall inform the local authority in whose permanent list the voter concerned is registered that he/she has been reported for registration in a special list.

(4) In the case of elections to the Senate, only the voters having a permanent address in the electoral district where the elections take place and/or the voters included on a special list (Section 5) shall be registered in the special list.

(5) The embassies shall establish special lists for all voters

a) having their permanent address outside the territory of the Czech Republic; any such voter must apply for registration in a special list in writing, providing the originals or legalised copies of documents establishing his/her identity, citizenship of the Czech Republic and permanent address within the territory of competence of the embassy in whose special list he/she is to be registered; each application must be forwarded or delivered to the relevant embassy no later than 40 days before the date of the elections, b) using their electoral cards to vote at the embassies.

(6) All special lists defined in Section 5, Subsection a) shall be closed by the embassies 30 days before the date of the elections and forwarded immediately to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry shall inform the embassies of any and all possible duplicities. After all duplicities have been eliminated, but no later than 20 days before the date of the elections the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall forward the final version of special lists to the Ministry of the Interior. If any voter registered in accordance with his/her application in any special list abroad is also registered in any permanent list, the Ministry of the Interior shall report this fact the local authority in whose permanent list he/she is registered and the voter shall be deleted from such permanent list immediately. Any such voter shall be informed of his/her deletion from the permanent list by the embassy in whose special list he/she is registered acting on information received from the relevant local authority.

(7) Each embassy shall forward an excerpt from its special list featuring all voters entitled to vote in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in its special election district to a special district election commission.

^{5) Act No. 133/2000 Coll. on evidence of citizens and on Birth Identification Numbers and on change of selected acts of law (the Act on Evidence of Citizens).}

^{5a) Article 4 of Act No. 293/1993 Coll. on custody serving. Article 5 of Act No. 169/1999 Coll. on serving of a term of imprisonment and on change of selected related acts of law.}