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
  1. 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.
  2. The right to vote shall be denied to:
  1. Anyone who has been sentenced to a prison term exceeding one year for a non-political crime and has not been pardoned.
  2. Anyone who has been declared bankrupt and has not been rehabilitated.
  3. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.