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Article 84
 

 (1) In the judicial revision procedure it is compulsory to provide representation by counsel. Persons having taken special examination in law may act in their own case without representation by counsel.
(2) The court shall decide the application for judicial revision in non-legal proceedings, in a council consisting of three professional judges.
(3) The application for judicial revision will be decided by the court in three days from the day it is addressed to it.
(4) Applications for judicial revision that fail to arrive on time, have been submitted not to the election committee defined in Section § 83 (1), or fail to contain what is set forth in Section § 83 (4) a) and b), shall be dismissed without examining them on the merits
(5) The application may not be dismissed if the appellant has submitted it within the defined time frame to the court entitled to adjudge it. In this case, by directly contacting the head of the regional election office, the court shall immediately arrange for obtaining the documents and allow the election committee to submit its standpoint taken on the application for judicial revision.
(6) On the grounds of the application for judicial revision, the court will examine the resolution found injurious and the procedure preceding it. On the appellant's request, the court ensures that an oral statement could be made. In this case, it shall be made possible also for the adverse party to make an oral statement.
(7) The court
a) will sustain the resolution contested, or
b) will change it.
(8) The decree adopted in the judicial revision will be communicated by the court to the appellant and those to whom the resolution of the second instance has been made known.
(9) Except for personal data, the court will publish its decree.
(10) Against the court's decree no further legal remedy lies.