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Article 189
 

Changing the appointed day   If the polling day falls on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, Epiphany, Easter Sunday, May Day Eve or May Day, Whit Sunday, Independence Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or Boxing Day, the polling day voting is organised on the following Sunday.   If an appointed day, which has been laid down in law or stipulated for something other than polling day voting, commencing or ending of advance polling, announcing of selected representatives without conducting an election or confirming of an election result, falls on an official holiday or an ordinary Saturday or Midsummer Eve or Christmas Eve, the first following working day is considered to be the appointed day. If required, the Ministry of Justice has the right to change such an appointed day to the closest appropriate day, if a re-election is to be conducted due to an appeal or if a new parliamentary elections or a by-election is ordered to be held or if a Presidential election has been ordered to be recommenced or if an election of authorised representatives has been ordered to be conducted at a new time.