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Law on the Records of Voting Rights

24 September 1992

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Article 2

Voting rights of citizens shall be recorded in the general electoral register compiled for each election and each referendum on the basis of the permanent record of voting rights.

Voting rights of citizens who do not have permanent residence in the Republic of Slovenia shall be recorded by a separate electoral register.

Voting rights of citizens for the election of deputies of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities shall be recorded in the electoral register for citizens of Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities.

The electoral registers from the first and second paragraphs of this article shall be compiled by the administrative body competent for keeping the permanent record of voting rights (hereinafter: competent body). The electoral register from the preceding paragraph shall be compiled by the self-governing ethnic communities and verified by the competent body.

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Article 18

The electoral register of citizens who are members of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities shall contain the following columns: a consecutive number, surname and given name, sex, date of birth, permanent residence and comments.

Article 19

The electoral register for citizens who are members of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities in the territories where these communities live shall be compiled by the commission of the relevant self-governing ethnic community.

A separate electoral register shall be compiled for each polling station.

Article 20

The commission from the preceding article shall have a president and two members.

The commission for the compiling of the electoral register must be founded and its president and members appointed no later than five days after the calling of the election.

Article 21

The electoral register for citizens who are members of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities shall be verified by the president and members of the commission for compiling the electoral register with signatures and the seal of the relevant self-governing ethnic community.

The commission shall submit the electoral register no later than 15 days after the calling of election to the competent body for confirmation.

Article 22

Citizens who are members of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities and do not have permanent residence in the territory where these minorities live shall be registered in the electoral register for citizens of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities upon written request to the relevant self-governing ethnic community.

Article 23

The provisions from Articles 11 to 16 hereof shall apply for electoral registers of citizens who are members of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities.

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Source: Report submitted by the Republic of Slovenia pursuant to Art. 25 Para. 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/StateReports/2000/slovenia/slovenia.html#annex2


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