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Section 43
 

(1) The Land Returning Officer arranges the finally admitted Land lists, consecutively  numbered, in the order stipulated in section 30 subsection (3), first and second sentences,  of the Federal Elections Act and makes them public. For each Land list, this public notice  contains the details specified in section 39 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 Land 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 Land Returning Officer notifies the Federal Returning Officer of the contact  address without delay. The Federal Returning Officer publishes the content of the public  notices issued by the Land Returning Officers in the electoral area.


(2) At the same time, the Land Returning Officer communicates the order of the Land  lists and the surnames and first names of the first five candidates to the Constituency  Returning Officers.