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Article 19
 

Responsibility for Violation of Signatures Collecting Procedures.

During the collection of signatures, the Chairperson of an appropriate Council of peoples' deputies, where signatures of the initiative group members are certified, shall organize the checking of the authenticity of records on petition forms. In case of violations of signature collecting procedures and petition forms execution are revealed, the Chairperson of rayon, city (cities of republican and oblast subordination) Councils of people deputies, in the territory which the all-Ukrainian referendum initiative group carries out its activity, shall submit a presentation to the Central Commission on all- Ukrainian referendum.

Within 10 days after the filing of the presentation, the Central Commission on all-Ukrainian referendum may adopt a resolution on suspension of the activity of the initiative group members who committed the violation, on recognition of their accreditation, as well as petition forms or signatures of the separate citizens, placed on the petition form with violation of procedure foreseen by this Law, as void.

If a violation is committed during the collection of signatures for conducting the referendum, the decision on suspension the activity of the initiative group members, who committed the violation, on recognition of their accreditation, as well as petition forms or signatures of the separate citizen, placed on the petition form with violation of procedure, foreseen by this Law, as void, shall be adopted during 10 days term by the Chairperson of that local Council of peoples' deputies where the local referendum initiative group is registered.

In case the violation of signature collecting procedure shall be repeated by the initiative group, the Central Commission on all- Ukrainian referendum or the Chairperson of local Council of peoples' deputies, where the local referendum initiative group is registered, may adopt the appropriate resolutions on halting the initiative group's activity, and recognize the certificate of its registration, the members' group accreditation and a petition form, as invalid. In so doing, the all-Ukrainian referendum initiative group's documents and collected petition forms shall be submitted to the Central Commission on all-Ukrainian referendum.

Local referendum initiative group's documents and collected petition forms shall be submitted to the appropriate Council of peoples' deputies. Citizens' signatures on the submitted petition forms, excluding those recognized as void, shall be taken into account, when final tabulation of a total number of Ukrainian citizens' signatures, demanding the conduct of the referendum, shall be executed.