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Law Of Election To The House Of Deputies -Jordan-
The 1986 Election Law regulates the operational aspects of parliamentary elections, as well as the requirements for candidates and proportional allotment of representatives throughout the country. At that time, the West Bank was constitutionally considered a part of Jordan. After the decision to disengage administratively and legally from the West Bank in 1988, the Election Law was amended in 1989 to redraw the Kingdom’s electoral districts. The amendment removed the West Bank from Jordan’s electoral map, thus paving the way for the 1989 parliamentary elections, the country’s first in 22 years.
In August 1993, Parliament passed an amendment to the election law which adjusted Jordan’s electoral system to the principle of “one person, one vote.” The new law ended the previous voting system, whereby voters were entitled to as many votes as the number of parliamentary seats allocated for their district.
Law Of Election To The House Of Deputies
Law No. 22 for the Year 1986
Published in the Official Gazette,
No. 3398 of 9 Ramadan 1406 A.H., being 17 May 1986 A.D.
CHAPTER ONE
Definitions
CHAPTER TWO
The Right to Vote
CHAPTER THREE
Electoral Lists
CHAPTER FOUR
Candidature for Membership of the House of Deputies
CHAPTER FIVE
Constituencies and Their Allotted Seats
CHAPTER SIX
Election Procedures
CHAPTER SEVEN
Canvassing Votes and Announcing Election Returns
CHAPTER EIGHT
Elections Publicity
CHAPTER NINE
Election Crimes
List Of Constituencies And The Seats Allocated To Each Constituency In The House Of Deputies
Elections Regulation
Published in the Official Gazette, No. 3429 of 13 Safar 1407 A.H., being 16 October 1986 A.D.
AMENDMENT
Provisional Law Number (23) for the Year 1989 Amending the Law of Election to the House of Deputies
Instructions Governing the Elections Identity Card
Issued in accordance with Article 35 of the Law of Election to the House of Deputies No. 22 for the year 1986 A.D.
Published in the Official Gazette, No. 3422, of 29 Safar 1407 A.H., being 1 November 1986 A.D.
Provisional Law Number (15) For The Year 1993 Amending The Law Of Election To The House Of Deputies
Published by: Press & Publications Department No. 6, November, 1993
Published in the Official Gazette,
No. 3398
of 9 Ramadan 1406 A.H., being 17 May 1986 A.D.
Regulation No. 60 for the Year 1986 A.D.
We, Al-Hussein I, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in accordance with Article (31) of the Constitution, and upon the decision of both The House of Notables and the House of Deputies, do hereby ratify the following Law, and order its issuance and addition to the laws of the State:
Law No. 22 for the Year 1986 A.D.
Law of Election to the House of Deputies
CHAPTER ONE
Definitions
Article 1 This law shall be called “Law of Election to the House of Deputies for the Year 1986,” and shall become effective as of the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article 2 The following words and expressions, wherever they appear in this Law, shall have the meanings ascribed to them hereunder, unless the context indicates otherwise:
Jordanian: Every person, male or female, who has acquired Jordanian nationality in accordance with the provisions of the Law of Jordanian Nationality.
Elector: Every Jordanian who has the right to elect members to the House of Deputies.
Voter: Every Elector who exercises his right to elect.
Candidate: Every Jordanian whose application for candidature in parliamentary elections has been accepted in accordance with this Law.
Deputy: Every Jordanian who has been elected to membership of the House of Deputies.
Administrative Governor: The Governor of the relevant Governorate, the Mutasarref of the relevant District, and the Administrative Director of the relevant District, and the Administrative Director of the relevant Subdistrict, each within the area of his competence.
Constituency: Every part of the Kingdom for which a seat or more in the House of Deputies has been designated in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
Electoral Sub-district: Every part of the Constituency for which one or more Ballot Centers has been designated.
Polling Center: The location designated by the Administrative Governor within his Constituency for conducting the voting process.
Revision Committee: The committee formed in every Constituency, headed by the Administrative Governor, with the membership of a judge and a registrar in the Department of Civil Status.
Central Committee: The committee formed in every Constituency in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
Personal Election Card: The Personal Election Card of the Elector which is issued by the Minister of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
CHAPTER TWO
The Right to Vote
Article 3 Every Jordanian, who has completed 19 Solar years of his age has the right to elect members of the House of Deputies if his name is registered in one of the Final Electoral Lists.
The right to vote shall be denied to:
Anyone who has been sentenced to a prison term exceeding one year for a non-political crime and has not been pardoned.
Anyone who has been declared bankrupt and has not been rehabilitated.
Anyone who has been interdicted for his person and the interdiction had not been lifted, or for any other reason and the interdiction has been lifted.
Article 4 An Elector may not exercise his right to vote in a Polling Center other than the one in which his name is registered; furthermore, he may not exercise this right more than once in any one election.
Article 5 The right to vote is denied to members of the Jordanian Armed Forces, Public Security and Civil Defense throughout their actual service.
CHAPTER THREE
Electoral Lists
Article 6 Electoral Lists shall be compiled for every Constituency in which are included names of Electors, who belong to that Constituency or reside habitually therein, no Elector may register in more than one Electoral List.
Article 7 The Electoral Lists shall be compiled by one or more committees appointed by the Administrative Governor every city, town, village or neighborhood in his Constituency; this Committee shall be called the “Committee for Compilation of Electoral Lists” and shall be formed of a Chairman and two members, all of whom shall be Government employees.
The Committee or Committees provided for in Paragraph (A) of this Article shall compile Electoral Lists of Electors in accordance with the regulations, procedures and dates designated by the Minister of the Interior within the provisions of this Law.
Article 8 The Family Book, issued by the Department of Civil Status, and nothing else, shall be used to register whomever has the right to vote in the Electoral Lists; a mark shall be inscribed in the Family Book containing an indication of the registration of the Elector in the List designated for the Constituency in which he resides.
Article 9 The Electoral List shall contain the complete identity of the Elector as it is entered in the Family Book, including his name, place and date of birth, religion, occupation, place of residence, and the number and the place and date of issue the Family Book.
The Committee for the Compilation of Electoral Lists shall prepare the Electoral List in three copies, which it shall submit duly signed by it to the Administrative Governor within fifteen days of the date of the formation of the Committee. The Administration Governor shall sign the aforementioned copies and shall keep one of them. None of these copies may be modified, except as related to correction in accordance with the provisions issued therefor in accordance with the provisions of this Law. The two other copies shall be displayed within three days from the date of submission of the copies of Electoral Lists to him, one in a prominent place at the Administrative Governor’s Office, and the other in a prominent place in the relevant neighborhood or village to be designated by the Administrative Governor. The display shall continue for ten days. The Mukhtar, or the authority entrusted with the display, shall present a record, duly signed by him and by the Optional Panel proving that the List has been displayed in the described manner.
Anyone whose name was unjustly excluded from the Electoral List, or in whose record data an error occurred, may request that his name be included or that his data be corrected; furthermore, he may object to the inclusion of someone else who does not have the right to vote, or to the omission of the names of those have such right. The objection shall be submitted in writing, exempt from stamps, to the Revision Committee, formed in accordance with this Law, within seven days of the date of the announcement of the Lists.
The Revision Committee shall consider the objections submitted to it within three days of the date of submission of the objection, and its decisions shall be subject to review, exempt from any fees, by the district’s Court of First Instance within five days of the date of service. The Court shall finally consider the matter within five days. The Court of First Instance shall notify the Revision Committee within three days with all the decisions it has issued.
The Revision Committee shall compile final lists of all electors in the Constituency. The Administrative Governor shall adopt the measures provided for in Paragraph (B) of this Article.
The final lists shall be adopted for the general parliamentary elections or by-elections for the year up until the first half of August; the ballot process shall be conducted in accordance with these lists.
Article 10 During the first half of August of every year, the Revision Committee shall review the Electoral Lists for the Constituency that falls within its competence, perform the additions thereto and deletions therefrom relying on the data and information coming to it from the relevant official departments, and shall record the reasons for the additions and elections in the column assigned to remarks in those Lists, provided that these data and information do not contradict the entries of the Department of Civil Status. Every person may request the Committee to register his name in the Electoral List if he satisfies the legal requirements.
Article 11 The competent courts in all the Constituencies shall provide the Revision Committee in that Constituency within the period from the 15th to the 30th of July of every year with a list containing a summary of judgements regarding bankruptcy and interdiction, as well as those imposing prison sentences exceeding one year for non-political crimes which had not been pardoned. Furthermore, the Department of Civil Status shall provide the said Committee within the aforementioned period with a list of persons who have completed nineteen years of their age, or those who have died during the twelve months preceding the period covered by the revision procedures of the Electoral Lists.
Article 12 Immediately after the end of the period specified pursuant to the provisions of Article (10) of this Law for the completion of its work, the Revision Committee shall display lists containing the names of Electors in the Constituency after performing the addition and deletion proceedings thereto for a period of one week in a prominent public place designated by the Administrative Governor, and shall advertise them in the local newspapers.
Article 13 Every person whose name was unjustly excluded from the Lists provided for in Article (12) of this Law, or an error has been made in the data pertaining to this entry in those Lists, may submit an objection thereto to the Revision Committee within ten days of the date of their display. Furthermore, every person registered in the Electoral Lists may object within the same period to the entry of any other person in those lists, who the objector thinks does not have the right to elect, or to the omission of a person, who the objector thinks has such a right.
Article 14 The Revision Committee shall issue its decisions concerning the objections submitted to it pursuant to Article (13) of this Law within three days of the end of the objection period, and shall notify its decisions to the objectors once they are issued. The decisions shall be subject to appeal before the Court of First Instance in the Constituency within three days of the date of its notification. The Court shall rule on the objections within five days of their submission; its decisions shall be final and not subject to appeal before any other authority. The Court shall notify the Chairman of the Revision Committee with its decisions within three days of the date of their issuance in order to implement them.
Article 15 After the Electors Lists have achieved their legal status, because there were no objections against them in accordance with the provisions of Article (13) of this Law, or because the decisions on objections against them have become final in accordance with the provisions of Article (14) of this Law, the Revision Committee shall compile for every Constituency final Electors Lists of all Electors in the concerned Department. The Committee shall send a copy of these final lists to the Ministry of Interior for safekeeping.
Article 16 The Electoral Lists compiled in final form, in accordance with the provisions of Article (15) of this Law, shall be adopted for the general parliamentary elections or by-elections that are conducted during any year.
CHAPTER FOUR
Candidature for Membership of the House of Deputies
Article 17 After the King has issued his Decree to hold the elections for the House of Deputies, in accordance with Paragraph (1) of Article (34) of the institution, the Council of Ministers shall decide to designate a date for the election, which shall be announced by the Prime Minister and published in the Official Gazette.
Article 18 A candidate for membership in the House of Deputies must meet the following conditions:
That he has been a Jordanian national for at least ten years and that he does not claim foreign nationality or protection.
That he is an Elector registered in one of the final Electoral Lists.
That he has completed thirty solar years of his age on the day the candidature period ends.
That he has not been sentenced to a prison term exceeding one year for a non-political crime from which he has not been pardoned, and that he has not been convicted of a moral felony or misdemeanor.
That he does not belong to an unlawful organization, defined as any party or organization whose principles, objectives and aims contradict the provisions of the Constitution.
That he does not have a material interest in any of the Government departments by virtue of a contract, other than contracts of land and property tenancy. This does not apply to anyone who is a shareholder in a company owned by more than ten persons.
That he is not a relative of the King to a degree specified by special legislation.
Article 19 Anyone may nominate himself for membership in the House of Deputies in only one Constituency.
Article 20 Employees of Government Ministries and Departments and public official organizations who draw their salaries from the Government’s Treasury or public funds subject thereto or supervised thereby, as well as employees of international organizations and chairmen of municipal and rural councils, may not nominate themselves for membership in the House of Deputies, unless they have submitted their resignations from their positions at least one month prior to the date designated for the election. The concerned official department may accept or deny the resignation, but it shall be considered accepted by force of law if no decision has been taken thereon within the days of submission thereof.
Article 21 Candidacy for membership in the House of Deputies shall start twenty-five days before the day designated for the election and shall continue for three days; no candidacy shall be accepted after the expiry of this period.
Article 22 Anyone wishing to nominate himself for membership in the House of Deputies shall pay the Treasury Director in the Constituency in which he wishes to nominate himself the amount of (500) five hundred Dinars, which shall be entered as income for the Treasury and shall not be returnable under any circumstance.
The candidate shall present his candidacy application in duplicate to the Administrative Governor in the Constituency in which he wishes to nominate himself, including his name, place of birth, region, place of domicile, and the seat for which he nominates himself; he shall attach the corroboratory documents and all the other declarations that are required in accordance with the provisions of this Law. The Administrative Governor shall give the applicant advice of receipt of the application which may be submitted on the form determined by the Minister of the Interior.
Article 23 The Administrative Governor shall verify whether the candidate’s application, documents and declarations conform with the conditions for candidacy provided in this Law; accordingly, he shall decide to approve or deny the application within a period not exceeding three days of the date of submission thereof.
Article 24 If the Administrative Governor decides to reject the candidacy application because it does not conform with the provisions of the Law, the applicant may submit an objection thereto before the Court of First Instance whose jurisdiction covers the Constituency, and within two days of the date of receipt of notification of the Administrative Governor’s decision. The Court shall finally rule upon the objection within three days of its submittal. The Administrative Governor must specify the reasons for rejection in his decision.
Article 25 The Administrative Governor shall keep a copy of the candidacy applications which he has accepted, or those accepted by a ruling of the Court of First Instance, and shall enter the same in a special register in the chronological order of the date of submission. After the candidacy applications have acquired final and absolute status and have been published in at least two local newspapers, the Administrative Governor shall compile a list of the names of the candidates for display in prominent public places in the relevant Constituency.
Article 26 Every Elector may appeal the acceptance of the candidacy of any candidate in his constituency before the Supreme Court of Justice within three days of the date of display of the lists of candidates provided for in Article (25) of this Law; the Court shall rule upon the appeal within five days from the date of submitting the appeal to the Court.
Article 27 Immediately after being notified thereof, the Administrative Governor shall announce any amendments to the Lists of Candidates made by virtue of rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice in the same manner that he announced the List of Candidates pursuant to the provisions of Article (25) of this Law: This list shall be the Final List of Candidates for the parliamentary elections.
Article 28 If the number of candidates in the Final List in any Constituency is equal to the number of parliamentary seats designated for that Constituency, these candidates shall be announced winners in the uncontested election.
Article 29 All petitions, objections and appeals submitted in accordance with this Law, as well as the rulings made thereon by courts, panels, committees and the Administrative Governor, are exempt from fees and stamps.
Article 30 Any candidate may withdraw his candidacy application before the end of official hours on the day immediately preceding the Election Day.
CHAPTER FIVE
Constituencies and Their Allotted Seats
Article 31 As of the date it is decided to hold the first general election to the House of Deputies conducted after the effective date of this Law, in accordance with the procedures set out therein, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan shall be divided into a number of Constituencies in accordance with the schedule appended to this Law and each Constituency shall be allocated the parliamentary seats specified for it therein.
The 1986 Election Law regulates the operational aspects of parliamentary elections, as well as the requirements for candidates and proportional allotment of representatives throughout the country. At that time, the West Bank was constitutionally considered a part of Jordan. After the decision to disengage administratively and legally from the West Bank in 1988, the Election Law was amended in 1989 to redraw the Kingdom’s electoral districts. The amendment removed the West Bank from Jordan’s electoral map, thus paving the way for the 1989 parliamentary elections, the country’s first in 22 years.
In August 1993, Parliament passed an amendment to the election law which adjusted Jordan’s electoral system to the principle of “one person, one vote.” The new law ended the previous voting system, whereby voters were entitled to as many votes as the number of parliamentary seats allocated for their district.
Law Of Election To The House Of Deputies
Law No. 22 for the Year 1986
Published in the Official Gazette,
No. 3398 of 9 Ramadan 1406 A.H., being 17 May 1986 A.D.
CHAPTER ONE
Definitions
CHAPTER TWO
The Right to Vote
CHAPTER THREE
Electoral Lists
CHAPTER FOUR
Candidature for Membership of the House of Deputies
CHAPTER FIVE
Constituencies and Their Allotted Seats
CHAPTER SIX
Election Procedures
CHAPTER SEVEN
Canvassing Votes and Announcing Election Returns
CHAPTER EIGHT
Elections Publicity
CHAPTER NINE
Election Crimes
List Of Constituencies And The Seats Allocated To Each Constituency In The House Of Deputies
Elections Regulation
Published in the Official Gazette, No. 3429 of 13 Safar 1407 A.H., being 16 October 1986 A.D.
AMENDMENT
Provisional Law Number (23) for the Year 1989 Amending the Law of Election to the House of Deputies
Instructions Governing the Elections Identity Card
Issued in accordance with Article 35 of the Law of Election to the House of Deputies No. 22 for the year 1986 A.D.
Published in the Official Gazette, No. 3422, of 29 Safar 1407 A.H., being 1 November 1986 A.D.
Provisional Law Number (15) For The Year 1993 Amending The Law Of Election To The House Of Deputies
Published by: Press & Publications Department No. 6, November, 1993
Published in the Official Gazette,
No. 3398
of 9 Ramadan 1406 A.H., being 17 May 1986 A.D.
Regulation No. 60 for the Year 1986 A.D.
We, Al-Hussein I, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in accordance with Article (31) of the Constitution, and upon the decision of both The House of Notables and the House of Deputies, do hereby ratify the following Law, and order its issuance and addition to the laws of the State:
Law No. 22 for the Year 1986 A.D.
Law of Election to the House of Deputies
CHAPTER ONE
Definitions
Article 1 This law shall be called “Law of Election to the House of Deputies for the Year 1986,” and shall become effective as of the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article 2 The following words and expressions, wherever they appear in this Law, shall have the meanings ascribed to them hereunder, unless the context indicates otherwise:
Jordanian: Every person, male or female, who has acquired Jordanian nationality in accordance with the provisions of the Law of Jordanian Nationality.
Elector: Every Jordanian who has the right to elect members to the House of Deputies.
Voter: Every Elector who exercises his right to elect.
Candidate: Every Jordanian whose application for candidature in parliamentary elections has been accepted in accordance with this Law.
Deputy: Every Jordanian who has been elected to membership of the House of Deputies.
Administrative Governor: The Governor of the relevant Governorate, the Mutasarref of the relevant District, and the Administrative Director of the relevant District, and the Administrative Director of the relevant Subdistrict, each within the area of his competence.
Constituency: Every part of the Kingdom for which a seat or more in the House of Deputies has been designated in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
Electoral Sub-district: Every part of the Constituency for which one or more Ballot Centers has been designated.
Polling Center: The location designated by the Administrative Governor within his Constituency for conducting the voting process.
Revision Committee: The committee formed in every Constituency, headed by the Administrative Governor, with the membership of a judge and a registrar in the Department of Civil Status.
Central Committee: The committee formed in every Constituency in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
Personal Election Card: The Personal Election Card of the Elector which is issued by the Minister of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
CHAPTER TWO
The Right to Vote
Article 3 Every Jordanian, who has completed 19 Solar years of his age has the right to elect members of the House of Deputies if his name is registered in one of the Final Electoral Lists.
The right to vote shall be denied to:
Anyone who has been sentenced to a prison term exceeding one year for a non-political crime and has not been pardoned.
Anyone who has been declared bankrupt and has not been rehabilitated.
Anyone who has been interdicted for his person and the interdiction had not been lifted, or for any other reason and the interdiction has been lifted.
Article 4 An Elector may not exercise his right to vote in a Polling Center other than the one in which his name is registered; furthermore, he may not exercise this right more than once in any one election.
Article 5 The right to vote is denied to members of the Jordanian Armed Forces, Public Security and Civil Defense throughout their actual service.
CHAPTER THREE
Electoral Lists
Article 6 Electoral Lists shall be compiled for every Constituency in which are included names of Electors, who belong to that Constituency or reside habitually therein, no Elector may register in more than one Electoral List.
Article 7 The Electoral Lists shall be compiled by one or more committees appointed by the Administrative Governor every city, town, village or neighborhood in his Constituency; this Committee shall be called the “Committee for Compilation of Electoral Lists” and shall be formed of a Chairman and two members, all of whom shall be Government employees.
The Committee or Committees provided for in Paragraph (A) of this Article shall compile Electoral Lists of Electors in accordance with the regulations, procedures and dates designated by the Minister of the Interior within the provisions of this Law.
Article 8 The Family Book, issued by the Department of Civil Status, and nothing else, shall be used to register whomever has the right to vote in the Electoral Lists; a mark shall be inscribed in the Family Book containing an indication of the registration of the Elector in the List designated for the Constituency in which he resides.
Article 9 The Electoral List shall contain the complete identity of the Elector as it is entered in the Family Book, including his name, place and date of birth, religion, occupation, place of residence, and the number and the place and date of issue the Family Book.
The Committee for the Compilation of Electoral Lists shall prepare the Electoral List in three copies, which it shall submit duly signed by it to the Administrative Governor within fifteen days of the date of the formation of the Committee. The Administration Governor shall sign the aforementioned copies and shall keep one of them. None of these copies may be modified, except as related to correction in accordance with the provisions issued therefor in accordance with the provisions of this Law. The two other copies shall be displayed within three days from the date of submission of the copies of Electoral Lists to him, one in a prominent place at the Administrative Governor’s Office, and the other in a prominent place in the relevant neighborhood or village to be designated by the Administrative Governor. The display shall continue for ten days. The Mukhtar, or the authority entrusted with the display, shall present a record, duly signed by him and by the Optional Panel proving that the List has been displayed in the described manner.
Anyone whose name was unjustly excluded from the Electoral List, or in whose record data an error occurred, may request that his name be included or that his data be corrected; furthermore, he may object to the inclusion of someone else who does not have the right to vote, or to the omission of the names of those have such right. The objection shall be submitted in writing, exempt from stamps, to the Revision Committee, formed in accordance with this Law, within seven days of the date of the announcement of the Lists.
The Revision Committee shall consider the objections submitted to it within three days of the date of submission of the objection, and its decisions shall be subject to review, exempt from any fees, by the district’s Court of First Instance within five days of the date of service. The Court shall finally consider the matter within five days. The Court of First Instance shall notify the Revision Committee within three days with all the decisions it has issued.
The Revision Committee shall compile final lists of all electors in the Constituency. The Administrative Governor shall adopt the measures provided for in Paragraph (B) of this Article.
The final lists shall be adopted for the general parliamentary elections or by-elections for the year up until the first half of August; the ballot process shall be conducted in accordance with these lists.
Article 10 During the first half of August of every year, the Revision Committee shall review the Electoral Lists for the Constituency that falls within its competence, perform the additions thereto and deletions therefrom relying on the data and information coming to it from the relevant official departments, and shall record the reasons for the additions and elections in the column assigned to remarks in those Lists, provided that these data and information do not contradict the entries of the Department of Civil Status. Every person may request the Committee to register his name in the Electoral List if he satisfies the legal requirements.
Article 11 The competent courts in all the Constituencies shall provide the Revision Committee in that Constituency within the period from the 15th to the 30th of July of every year with a list containing a summary of judgements regarding bankruptcy and interdiction, as well as those imposing prison sentences exceeding one year for non-political crimes which had not been pardoned. Furthermore, the Department of Civil Status shall provide the said Committee within the aforementioned period with a list of persons who have completed nineteen years of their age, or those who have died during the twelve months preceding the period covered by the revision procedures of the Electoral Lists.
Article 12 Immediately after the end of the period specified pursuant to the provisions of Article (10) of this Law for the completion of its work, the Revision Committee shall display lists containing the names of Electors in the Constituency after performing the addition and deletion proceedings thereto for a period of one week in a prominent public place designated by the Administrative Governor, and shall advertise them in the local newspapers.
Article 13 Every person whose name was unjustly excluded from the Lists provided for in Article (12) of this Law, or an error has been made in the data pertaining to this entry in those Lists, may submit an objection thereto to the Revision Committee within ten days of the date of their display. Furthermore, every person registered in the Electoral Lists may object within the same period to the entry of any other person in those lists, who the objector thinks does not have the right to elect, or to the omission of a person, who the objector thinks has such a right.
Article 14 The Revision Committee shall issue its decisions concerning the objections submitted to it pursuant to Article (13) of this Law within three days of the end of the objection period, and shall notify its decisions to the objectors once they are issued. The decisions shall be subject to appeal before the Court of First Instance in the Constituency within three days of the date of its notification. The Court shall rule on the objections within five days of their submission; its decisions shall be final and not subject to appeal before any other authority. The Court shall notify the Chairman of the Revision Committee with its decisions within three days of the date of their issuance in order to implement them.
Article 15 After the Electors Lists have achieved their legal status, because there were no objections against them in accordance with the provisions of Article (13) of this Law, or because the decisions on objections against them have become final in accordance with the provisions of Article (14) of this Law, the Revision Committee shall compile for every Constituency final Electors Lists of all Electors in the concerned Department. The Committee shall send a copy of these final lists to the Ministry of Interior for safekeeping.
Article 16 The Electoral Lists compiled in final form, in accordance with the provisions of Article (15) of this Law, shall be adopted for the general parliamentary elections or by-elections that are conducted during any year.
CHAPTER FOUR
Candidature for Membership of the House of Deputies
Article 17 After the King has issued his Decree to hold the elections for the House of Deputies, in accordance with Paragraph (1) of Article (34) of the institution, the Council of Ministers shall decide to designate a date for the election, which shall be announced by the Prime Minister and published in the Official Gazette.
Article 18 A candidate for membership in the House of Deputies must meet the following conditions:
That he has been a Jordanian national for at least ten years and that he does not claim foreign nationality or protection.
That he is an Elector registered in one of the final Electoral Lists.
That he has completed thirty solar years of his age on the day the candidature period ends.
That he has not been sentenced to a prison term exceeding one year for a non-political crime from which he has not been pardoned, and that he has not been convicted of a moral felony or misdemeanor.
That he does not belong to an unlawful organization, defined as any party or organization whose principles, objectives and aims contradict the provisions of the Constitution.
That he does not have a material interest in any of the Government departments by virtue of a contract, other than contracts of land and property tenancy. This does not apply to anyone who is a shareholder in a company owned by more than ten persons.
That he is not a relative of the King to a degree specified by special legislation.
Article 19 Anyone may nominate himself for membership in the House of Deputies in only one Constituency.
Article 20 Employees of Government Ministries and Departments and public official organizations who draw their salaries from the Government’s Treasury or public funds subject thereto or supervised thereby, as well as employees of international organizations and chairmen of municipal and rural councils, may not nominate themselves for membership in the House of Deputies, unless they have submitted their resignations from their positions at least one month prior to the date designated for the election. The concerned official department may accept or deny the resignation, but it shall be considered accepted by force of law if no decision has been taken thereon within the days of submission thereof.
Article 21 Candidacy for membership in the House of Deputies shall start twenty-five days before the day designated for the election and shall continue for three days; no candidacy shall be accepted after the expiry of this period.
Article 22 Anyone wishing to nominate himself for membership in the House of Deputies shall pay the Treasury Director in the Constituency in which he wishes to nominate himself the amount of (500) five hundred Dinars, which shall be entered as income for the Treasury and shall not be returnable under any circumstance.
The candidate shall present his candidacy application in duplicate to the Administrative Governor in the Constituency in which he wishes to nominate himself, including his name, place of birth, region, place of domicile, and the seat for which he nominates himself; he shall attach the corroboratory documents and all the other declarations that are required in accordance with the provisions of this Law. The Administrative Governor shall give the applicant advice of receipt of the application which may be submitted on the form determined by the Minister of the Interior.
Article 23 The Administrative Governor shall verify whether the candidate’s application, documents and declarations conform with the conditions for candidacy provided in this Law; accordingly, he shall decide to approve or deny the application within a period not exceeding three days of the date of submission thereof.
Article 24 If the Administrative Governor decides to reject the candidacy application because it does not conform with the provisions of the Law, the applicant may submit an objection thereto before the Court of First Instance whose jurisdiction covers the Constituency, and within two days of the date of receipt of notification of the Administrative Governor’s decision. The Court shall finally rule upon the objection within three days of its submittal. The Administrative Governor must specify the reasons for rejection in his decision.
Article 25 The Administrative Governor shall keep a copy of the candidacy applications which he has accepted, or those accepted by a ruling of the Court of First Instance, and shall enter the same in a special register in the chronological order of the date of submission. After the candidacy applications have acquired final and absolute status and have been published in at least two local newspapers, the Administrative Governor shall compile a list of the names of the candidates for display in prominent public places in the relevant Constituency.
Article 26 Every Elector may appeal the acceptance of the candidacy of any candidate in his constituency before the Supreme Court of Justice within three days of the date of display of the lists of candidates provided for in Article (25) of this Law; the Court shall rule upon the appeal within five days from the date of submitting the appeal to the Court.
Article 27 Immediately after being notified thereof, the Administrative Governor shall announce any amendments to the Lists of Candidates made by virtue of rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice in the same manner that he announced the List of Candidates pursuant to the provisions of Article (25) of this Law: This list shall be the Final List of Candidates for the parliamentary elections.
Article 28 If the number of candidates in the Final List in any Constituency is equal to the number of parliamentary seats designated for that Constituency, these candidates shall be announced winners in the uncontested election.
Article 29 All petitions, objections and appeals submitted in accordance with this Law, as well as the rulings made thereon by courts, panels, committees and the Administrative Governor, are exempt from fees and stamps.
Article 30 Any candidate may withdraw his candidacy application before the end of official hours on the day immediately preceding the Election Day.
CHAPTER FIVE
Constituencies and Their Allotted Seats
Article 31 As of the date it is decided to hold the first general election to the House of Deputies conducted after the effective date of this Law, in accordance with the procedures set out therein, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan shall be divided into a number of Constituencies in accordance with the schedule appended to this Law and each Constituency shall be allocated the parliamentary seats specified for it therein.