(1) The Constituency Returning Officer invites the spokespersons for the constituency  nominations to the meeting at which the admission of the constituency nominations will  be decided.

(2) The Constituency Returning Officer presents all the constituency nominations  received to the Constituency Electoral Committee and reports to the Committee on the  result of the preliminary examination.

(3) The Constituency Electoral Committee examines the constituency nominations  received and decides whether to admit or reject them. Before a decision is taken, the  spokesperson for the nomination concerned must, if present, be given the opportunity to  comment.

(4) The Constituency Electoral Committee establishes which constituency nominations,  containing the details specified in section 34 subsection (1), second sentence, are  admitted on condition that the Land list of the submitting party is admitted pursuant to  section 28 of the Federal Elections Act. If, in the case of a non-party constituency  nomination (section 20 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act), the identifying name  is missing or gives the impression that this is the constituency nomination of a political  party or if the identifying name is liable to be confused with a previously submitted  constituency nomination, the constituency nomination in question is given the name of  the candidate as its identifying name. 

(5) At the meeting, the Constituency Returning Officer announces the decision of the  Constituency Electoral Committee once it has been taken, briefly stating the reasons for  the decision and indicating what legal remedies are available.

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(6) The record of the meeting (section 5 subsection (7)) must be drawn up as shown in  Annex 19; the admitted constituency nominations in the version established by the  Constituency Electoral Committee must be attached to the record.

(7) After the meeting, the Constituency Returning Officer immediately forwards the  examined constituency nominations, and a copy of the record, to the Land Returning  Officer and the Federal Returning Officer, using an electronic procedure provided by the  Federal Returning Officer. Appropriate technical and organisational measures must be  taken to prevent unauthorised access to the data. When forwarding the data, the  Constituency Returning Officer makes particular reference to decisions which he or she  deems questionable. The Constituency Returning Officer is required to provide the Federal  Returning Officer, upon request, with all the information required to lodge an appeal and  to establish the relevant facts.