Admission of Constituency Nominations
(1) The Constituency Electoral Committee decides on the admission of constituency nominations on the fifty-eighth day before the election. It must reject constituency nominations if they
1. are submitted too late, or
2. do not meet the requirements set forth in this Act and in the Federal Electoral Regulations unless otherwise specified in these provisions.
A constituency nomination of a party is admitted provided that the Land list of the party submitting the nomination has been admitted pursuant to section 28. The decision must be announced at the meeting of the Constituency Electoral Committee.
(2) If the Constituency Electoral Committee rejects a constituency nomination, an appeal may be lodged with the Land Electoral Committee within three days of the announcement of the decision. The spokesperson for the constituency nomination, the Federal Returning Officer and the Constituency Returning Officer are entitled to lodge an appeal. The Federal Returning Officer and the Constituency Returning Officer may also appeal against a decision by which a constituency nomination is admitted. The persons concerned attending the appeal proceedings must be heard. The decision on the appeal must be taken not later than the fifty-second day before the election.
(3) The Constituency Returning Officer establishes whether the conditions specified in subsection (1), third sentence, have been fulfilled. The Constituency Returning Officer makes the admitted constituency nominations public not later than the forty-eighth day before the election.