Acceptance and return of documents
(1) Rural municipality and city electoral committees maintains records concerning the nomination ofcandidates.
(2) The registration documentation of candidates are delivered by an authorised representative of the politicalparty or election coalition. The registration documents of an independent candidate are delivered by the independent candidate or their authorised representative.
(3) Where all the required documents have not been submitted to a rural municipality or city electoralcommittee, or the submitted documents contain errors or omissions, the person who accepts the documents proposes to the person submitting the documents to submit the required documents or data or to correct the errors. All the documents submitted are returned. [RT I, 06.05.2016, 1 – entry into force 01.01.2017]
(4) Where a political party, an election coalition or an independent candidate wishes to make amendments to theregistration documents of candidates, the rural municipality or city electoral committee returns all the submitted documents and, upon re-submission thereof, the documents are deemed to have been submitted for the first time.
(5) Where a candidate is deleted from the list of nominated candidates on the basis of a personal application, therural municipality or city electoral committee returns the application to stand as a candidate to the candidate and informs an authorised representative of the political party, election coalition or independent candidate thereof. The political party or election coalition need not resubmit the registration documentation of candidates. [RT I, 11.07.2014, 1 – entry into force 21.07.2014]
(6) Where a political party, election coalition or an independent candidate submits documents before 18:00on the 40thday before the election day and it becomes evident that not all the required documents have been submitted, that the documents contain omissions or that the documents submitted contain errors which cannot be corrected immediately, the documents are accepted. The person who accepts the documents proposes to the person submitting the documents to submit the missing documents or data or to correct the errors. In such case, the political party, election coalition or independent candidate is to perform the required acts not later than before 18:00 on the 38thday before the election day. [RT I, 06.05.2016, 1 – entry into force 01.01.2017]
