Review of Applications for Candidate Registration by Divisional Election Boards
(1) The divisional election board shall complete a review of all the applications for registration that have been filed no later than on the fifty-fifth day prior to the day of the elections.
(2) The divisional election board shall reject any application for registration should:
the nominated candidate fail to be eligible to be elected (see Article 57 hereinbefore);
the application for registration contain incorrect and/or incomplete data;
the independent candidate applying fail to produce a petition with signatures in his/her favour, or should the petition contain incorrect or/and incomplete pieces of information or forged signatures.
(3) Any candidate may appeal against the decision of the divisional election board to reject his/her application for registration to the Central Election Board. Such an appeal shall be lodged with the Central Election Board by the candidate no later that twenty-four hours following the receipt of the decision, and the Central Election Board shall have no more than two days to render a decision on such appeal.
