LAW NO. 20,010 AMENDS LAWS NUMBERS 18,556, ON ELECTORAL REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL SERVICE SYSTEM, AND 18,700, ON POPULAR VOTES AND ELECTIONS Having present that the National Congress has given its approval to the following Bill: "Article 1.-Amendment of Law No. 18,556, Constitutional Organic on System of Electoral Enrollments and Electoral Service, as follows: 1.-Add the following final paragraph to Article 13:" Especially, in the communes with higher population and when an Inscriptora Board can be exceeded in its capacity enrol the applicants, the Director of the Electoral Service will be able to create new Unscriptoring Boards on a temporary or permanent basis, whose constituency is coincident with the territory of another, all in order to facilitate the registration. These new Juntas will not be mobile and must be placed in a fixed place within their territorial jurisdiction, being able to do so in the same place where the existing ones or in other places of great public affluence agreed with the municipality in accordance with Article 24. Such boards may only register citizens and foreigners entitled to vote, whose domicile is the subject of the judicial territory of the Board, in accordance with Article 34. ' 2.-The third indent of Article 21 is replaced by the following: "For the purposes of the relevant minutes and the payment of the respective fees, the double working day of Article 22 shall be considered as two separate sessions." 3.-Substitute the first, second, third and fourth points of Article 22, for the following: " Article 22.-The Inscription Boards shall operate every working day, Monday to Friday, on a double day, from 9 to 13 hours and from 15 to 19 hours, and on Saturdays, from 10 to 14 hours. However, if at the end of the normal working hours there are persons who require their registration, the Boards shall continue to operate, but no later than 14 or 21 hours as appropriate, except on the Sabbath day. they will perform beyond 16 hours. However, the Director of the Electoral Service may arrange for all or some of the Boards to operate on holidays in replacement of working days. However, the Director, by means of a well-founded resolution to be published in the Official Journal and in a newspaper in the respective Region, may suspend the operation of one or more Inscriptor Boards where the low population or the conditions This is advisable. In any case, these Boards must have operating periods of no less than four months in each year and for four hours each day. These amendments shall be established by a well-founded decision, which shall be published in the Official Journal, in the third day, and shall apply from the tenth day following the publication concerned. The Boards shall suspend their operation from the ninetieth day before an ordinary election and shall resume it on the first working day of the month following the date on which the Qualifier of Elections shall communicate to the Director of the Service Electoral term of the process of qualification of an election or plebiscite. In the event of a plebiscite, the suspension will operate from the day on which the supreme order of convocation is published in the Official Journal. "4.-Add in article 24 the following final sentence:" In cases where the Inscriptor Boards do not function in the municipality's own building, it must provide permanent or temporary premises located in centres of easy public access and significant displacement of persons from the respective commune. " 5.-Rule 35. 6.-Replace Article 38 by the following: " Article 38. Without prejudice to the provisions of the foregoing Article, the entry of persons of seventeen years of age shall be permitted provided that they comply with eighteen, at the latest, on the day of the election. ' Article 2 °.-Replace in article 38 of the Law No. 18,700, Constitutional Organic on Popular Voting and Scrutiny, the expression "ninetieth" for "octogesimo". Article 3.-The greatest expense that this law will irrogate for the Electoral Service will be solved by the resources that are contemplated in the budget of the respective year. If such resources are not sufficient, the Ministry of Finance may supplement them with the corresponding item from the Public Treasury Item of the public sector budget of the same year. " Having complied with the provisions of Article 82 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of Mexico, and because I have had to approve and sanction it, I therefore promulgate and take effect as the Law of Santiago, 12 April 2005.-RICARDO LAGOS ESCOBAR, President of the Republic.-José Miguel Insulza Salinas, Minister of the Interior.-Nicolas Eyzaguirre Guzmán, Minister of Finance. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Salute atte. Mr Jorge Correa Sutil, Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Constitutional Court Bill amending the organic laws |! |constitutional No. 18,556, on System of |! | Electoral Enrollments and Electoral Service, and Nº |! | 18,700, on Popular Voting and Scrutiny The Secretary of the Constitutional Court, who |! |subscribes, certifies that the Honorable Chamber of Deputies |! |sent the bill enunciated in the rubric, approved |! |by the National Congress, in order that this Court |! |exercise the control of constitutionality in respect of |! |articles 1 and 2 of the same, and by judgment of 29 |! |of March 2005, Given in the cars Rol Nº 438, the |! |declared constitutional. Santiago, March 31, 2005.-Rafael Larrain |! | Cruz, Secretary.