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Section 231
 

(1) Appeals and requests for judicial review shall be rejected without substantive examination if:
a) they were not submitted by a person listed in Section 221 (1) or 222 (1);
b) they were submitted late;
c) they were not submitted to the election commission specified in Section 224 (1); or
d) they do not contain the items specified in Section 224 (3).
(2) Requests for judicial review submitted by violating the provisions of Section 224 (5) shall also be rejected without substantive examination.
(3) An appeal shall not be rejected if a party entitled to submit an appeal submitted it to the election commission within the specified deadline, and a request for judicial review shall not be rejected if a party entitled to submit a request for judicial review submitted it to the court with competence in the matter within the specified deadline. In such cases, the election office operating alongside the election commission with competence in the matter or the court shall make arrangements to acquire the necessary documents without delay.
(4) Based on the appeal, the election commission entitled to adjudge it shall examine the resolution found injurious and the procedure preceding it.
(5) The election commission or the court shall make one of two decisions regarding the challenged resolution:
a) uphold it; or
b) alter it.