Provisional Law Number (15) For The Year 1993

Amending The Law Of Election To The House

Of Deputies
Article 1 This Law shall be called the “Law Amending the Law of Election to the House of Deputies for the Year 1993,” and shall be read with Law Number 22 for the year 1986, which shall hereunder be referred to as the Original Law and shall become effective as of the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

Article 2

 Paragraph (B) of Article 46 of the Original Law shall be repealed and substituted with the following text:

  1. The voter shall write the name of the Candidate he wishes to elect on the Ballot Paper given to him by the Chairman of the Balloting Panel, and shall return to the Ballot Box to deposit the Ballot Paper therein. An illiterate voter may ask the Chairman of the Balloting Panel to write the name of the Candidate the Elector wishes to elect; after having written down the name, the Chairman shall read the name out within earshot of the Balloting Panel.
Article 3 The text of Article 52 of the Original Law shall be repealed and substituted with the following text:
  1. If any Ballot Paper contains more than one of the names of the Candidates, only the first name shall be taken and the other names therein shall be omitted.
  2. If the name of the Candidate in the Ballot Paper is not clearly readable, but the paper contains enough presumptions to indicate it and prevent any confusion, then the name shall be considered as that of that candidate.
Article 4 Any text contradicting with the provisions of this Law wherever it occurs in the Original Law or in any Regulation issued in the virtue thereof shall be repealed.
August 17, 1993