We, El-Hassan Bin Talal, Deputy of His Majesty the King, In Accordance with Article (31) of the Constitution, and upon the decision of the Council of Ministers of September 16, 1986, do hereby order the enactment of the following Regulation:

Regulation No. (60) for the Year 1986

Elections Regulation

Issued by Virtue of Article (72)

of the Law of Election to the House of Deputies

No. (22) for the Year 1986
Article1

This Regulation shall be called the “Election Regulation for the year 1986,” and shall become effective as of the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article 2 The compilation of the Electoral Lists shall be done in accordance with the instructions, procedures and time schedules declared and determined by the Minister of Interior in accordance with the provisions of the applicable Law of Election. He may also determine the method of compilation of said Lists and the forms to be used for that purpose.
Article 3 On the night preceding the day designated for conducting the election, the Central Committee shall hand over the Polling Boxes, Electoral Lists, Polling Papers, seals and the rest of the essentials designated for the election process to the concerned panels appointed to supervise the election procedure in the Constituency. A record thereof shall be minuted and signed by the Chairmen of both the Central Committee and the concerned Balloting Panel.
Article 4

Any Elector who has changed his usual place of domicile may request striking off his name from the Electoral List of the Constituency in which he has been registered and entering same in the Electoral List of the Constituency to which he has moved his place of domicile. The application therefor, supported with the corroborative documents, shall be submitted to the Minister of Interior, together with the applicant’s Elections Card, before the first day of August of every year, for a decision to be passed after the competent Review Committees have been consulted on the matter. When the Minister of Interior approves the request, he shall instruct the competent Review Committee, during the first half of the same month, to strike off the applicant’s name, and to cancel his Elections Card in his previous Constituency and to register his place of domicile and to issue him a new Elections Card in this Constituency.
Article 5

Nobody is allowed to enter any of the Ballot Centers during the hours designated for the election except members of the Balloting Panel, the Candidates or whomever they appoint as delegates, and a number of Electors not exceeding five persons at any time.
Article 6 After compiling the constituency’s final list of candidates, the administrative Governor shall display same in a prominent way in the Polling Center for the Electors to take a look at.
Article 7 After ascertaining the existence of the Elector’s name in the Electoral List and verifying his identity in accordance with his Elections Card, the Chairman of the Balloting Panel shall read audibly the Elector’s name and then hand him the Ballot Paper after entering a notation in the Elector’s entry in the Electoral list.
Article 8 If the elector is illiterate, or unable to write for any reason whatsoever, he may charge the Chairman of the Balloting Panel with writing on the Ballot Paper the names of the candidates he wishes to elect. When the Chairman of the Panel has done this, he shall read to the Elector the names he had requested to be written and enter any modification the Elector requests thereof.
Article 9
  1. The word “invalid” shall be written on any Ballot Paper the Canvassing Sub-committee considers invalid in accordance with the provisions of this Law, and the Chairman and members of the Sub-committee shall then sign the invalid papers and append them to the record which the Canvassing Committee submits to the Central Committee.
  2. In its record to the Minister of Interior relevant to the final results of the election, the Central Committee shall submit a report of the invalid papers which were not counted during the canvassing procedure.
Article 10

If, by virtue of the provisions of the Law, the Canvassing Sub-committee deems the voting in any Ballot Box null and void, because the number of papers therein exceeds or is less than the number of voters therein by more than five percent, it is required to submit a report thereof to the Central Committee in the Constituency to announce same and take the necessary action to repeat the voting for that Box in accordance with the provisions of the Law.
Article 11 The Canvassing of votes shall continue uninterrupted in the Constituency Headquarters until the results emerge.
Article 12 When the election returns have been announced in the Constituency, the Central Committee shall gather the polling papers, the Electoral Lists and all the records and special papers pertaining to the election in one pile, seal it in such a manner that it cannot be opened without breaking the seal, and send it to the Minister of Interior to keep in a safe place until any challenge which may be submitted thereto in accordance with the provisions of the Law has been settled.
Article 13 The Minister of Interior may issue the instructions necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this Regulation.
September 16, 1986 El-Hassan Bin Talal