Act No. 266 / 1948 Coll.

Law amending and supplementing the law on the modification of permanent electoral lists

Valid Effective from 17.12.1948
266.
Law
of 1 December 1948
amending and supplementing the law on the modification of permanent electoral lists.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Čl. I.
The Act of 21 February 1946, No 28 Coll., on the modification of permanent electoral lists, is amended as follows:
1. Paragraph 2, paragraph 1, first sentence shall read as follows:
"All citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic who have reached the age of 18 on the day of unloading of the electoral lists (§ 8) are, without prejudice to § § 4 and § 5, resident in the municipality and are not explicitly excluded from registration under § 3."
2. Article 3 (1), No 3 reads as follows:
"3. who are in a coercive or forced labour camp."
3.
"(2) The electoral lists (paragraphs 4 and 5) shall be drawn up by the local national committee by a special standing commission (local election commission). In municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants, several local election committees may be set up as necessary. The local (central) national committee shall determine their scope. The local election committee has 5 members and the same number of alternates. The members and, for each member of the alternate, the local national committee shall be appointed by the local committee, on a proposal from the relevant local committee, and, failing that, the national front district action committee. The chairman of the local election committee shall not be the chairman of the local national committee. ';
4. Paragraph 8 (1), last sentence:
"Every citizen of the Czechoslovak Republic, who has reached the age of 18, shall have the right to consult the electoral lists and to make copies of them, unless this excludes other persons from exercising the same right."
5. In Section 8, paragraph 4, the words "a political party operating in the country concerned, for at least 8 days' shall be replaced by the words" a political party of at least 15 days';
6. Paragraph 10 (1), third sentence:
"Article 7 (2), fourth to sixth sentence, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the composition of these commissions. '
7. in Paragraph 10 (2), third sentence, the words "definitively" shall be deleted.
8.
"(3) If the national committee has not decided within the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 or 2, its power to decide on objections shall pass on to the superior authority (office) whose decision is final. ';
9.
"(4) In the case of an appeal stool (paragraph 2), the number of appeal boards is needed to deal with an appeal decision. The appeal committee shall have five members and the same number of alternates. The members and each alternate member shall be appointed by the Board of Appeal on a proposal from the National Front Action Committee. If the Board of Appeal of the District National Committee is concerned, the Regional Action Committee of the National Front shall submit a proposal, in other cases the Regional Action Committee of the National Front. At least one member of the committee and his alternate should have, if possible, a full legal education. If such a person has not been appointed as a member (alternate) of the Panel, the Board of Appeal shall determine its legal service official's seat and attend the panel's deliberations with the advisory vote. ';
10.
„§ 11.
Scratch of registered persons and correct writing errors.
(1) The local national committee shall, by its own authority, be obliged to cross off by its local electoral commission on the basis of a notification from the competent court, authority or authority from the electoral lists of persons who are not Czechoslovak citizens, persons who have not reached the age of 18 on the date of unloading of the electoral lists and persons excluded from registration under § 3 as well as persons deceased. If someone is also included in the electoral lists of two or more municipalities or in two or more sub-lists of the same municipality (§ 6 (1)), the official local national committee shall, on its own initiative, cross them out of the electoral lists by its local election committee, so that, according to its proposal, only one electoral (sub-list) is included. The cross-cutting is also carried out in a copy (Section 10 (5)) of the electoral lists. Paragraph 10 (2), first sentence and Paragraph 10 (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(2) Errors in the typing of personal data of persons entered on the electoral lists shall be corrected by the local national committee by its local electoral commission on its own initiative or by the duly documented application of the person concerned in the column for those alerts. The correction shall also be made in a copy of the electoral lists. ';
11. Article 12 (1) shall be supplemented by the following second sentence:
"Paragraph 7 (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis. ';
12. Paragraph 13 (2) shall be replaced by the following:
"In so doing, the time limit may be reduced accordingly, but the period of objection and the period of appeal shall not exceed 3 days. Election lists drawn up in accordance with the first sentence shall be valid only until the end of the general three-year period (Section 7, paragraph 1, first sentence). '
13. Article 15 (1) shall be added to Article 5:
"5. persons who prove to the administration of the institution concerned that they will be treated in a hospital (in another hospital) on the day of the election or placed in a social institution, even if the seat of the institute is in the village where they are registered in the electoral lists."
14.
"(2) The application must contain facts justifying the entitlement to issue an electoral licence, the correctness of which must be demonstrated at the same time, and the name of the municipality in which the applicant intends to vote, following the designation of the institute (paragraph 1, No 5). The application shall also contain precise information on residence, employment and the time of birth of the applicant, contained in the electoral lists, as well as the exact information required for the delivery of the electoral licence. The obligation to give the name of the municipality of the election shall not include military persons, members of the National Security Corps, members of the Financial Guard, members of the College of Uniformed Prison Guard, and those postal and transport personnel whose nature of the service excludes the possibility of predicting the place of residence on the day of the election. The Ministry of the Interior can be designated by decree in the Official Journal of the Czechoslovak Republic by other groups of persons active in the field of public administration who do not have this obligation. One application may relate to only one person. The application may be submitted after the election, but no later than 8 days before the election date, to the local national committee (paragraph 1). Voters' passes may be issued no later than the third day before the choice. '
15. in Paragraph 15 (5), the final sentence is replaced by the following:
"This provision shall not apply to persons referred to in paragraph 2, third and fourth sentences. The electoral licence, issued in accordance with paragraph 1, No 5, shall also indicate the constituency established for voters in an institution where the person intends to vote. This person may, on the basis of such an elective card, exercise the election in accordance with the provisions of the relevant electoral order only in the indicated constituency. '
16.
"(1) The Ministry of the Interior may order local national committees to provide other certified copies of electoral lists."
17.
"Managers shall be obliged to notify the local national committee of the surname, name, employment and residence of persons over the age of 18 who have died in the municipality during the previous calendar month by the fifth day of each subsequent calendar month. ';
Čl. II.
The Minister of the Interior is hereby authorised to amend and publish in the Collection of Laws the full text of Act No. 28 / 1946 Coll., as is apparent from the amendments and additions referred to in Article I.
Čl. III.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; It shall be implemented by the Minister for the Interior in agreement with participating members of the Government.
Gottwald v. r.
Dr John v. r.
Zaporocký v. r.
Nosek v. r.

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CitationAct No. 266 / 1948 Coll., amending and supplementing the law on the modification of permanent electoral lists
Regulation Type-
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CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation17.12.1948
Effective from17.12.1948
Effective until-
Status Valid
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