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Section 38
 

Before making the admitted constituency nominations public, the Constituency Returning  Officer establishes, as shown in Annex 19a, that the condition stipulated in section 26  subsection (1), third sentence, of the Federal Elections Act has been satisfied. He or she  arranges the admitted constituency nominations, consecutively numbered, in the order  stipulated in section 30 subsection (3), third and fourth sentences, of the Federal Elections  Act and in the communication issued by the Land Returning Officer as per section 43  subsection (2) and makes them public. Parties with an admitted Land list but no admitted  constituency nomination are allocated a dummy number. For each constituency  nomination, this public notice contains the details specified in section 34 subsection (1),  second sentence; however, instead of the date of birth only the year of birth of each  candidate has to be indicated and instead of the candidate’s address only the town or city  of residence (main residence) is required. If a candidate provides evidence to the  Constituency Returning Officer before the end of the submission period that a block on the  release of information has been entered for the candidate in the population register as per  section 51 subsection (1) of the Federal Act on Registration, the town or city where the  candidate’s contact address is located must be used instead of the town or city where he  or she lives; it does not suffice to indicate a post office box. The Constituency Returning  Officer notifies the Land Returning Officer and the Federal Returning Officer of the contact  address without delay. The Federal Returning Officer publishes the content of the public  notices issued by the Constituency Returning Officers in the electoral area.