Appeal to administrative court

A decision of a local register office rejecting or dismissing a rectification request and a decision of the Population Register Centre or a local register office referred to in section 26, subsection 2 may be appealed against to an administrative court. The appeal shall be lodged at the latest on the seventh day after the person concerned has been served with the decision or the decision has been published in the Official Gazette. An appeal addressed to the administrative court may within the appeal period be delivered to a local register office, which then forwards it to the administrative court. In other respects, the provisions of the Administrative Judicial Procedure Act (586/1996) apply to the appeal.

The administrative court shall, without delay, inform the appellant and the local register office of its decision. If the decision involves entering the concerned person in the voting register or changing the information concerning him or her, the administrative court shall without delay also inform the Population Register Centre of the decision. The Centre is responsible for making the required changes in the voting register. If the administrative court issues such a decision after 19:00 on the fourth day before the election day, it shall without delay deliver the decision also to the central electoral committee of the municipality in question, which shall enclose it to the electoral roll referred to in section 71. If the appeal has been rejected or dismissed, the administrative court shall inform the Population Register Centre of this, and the Centre shall make an entry of it in the voting register.

A decision of the administrative court referred to in this section is not subject to appeal.