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(1) A party or movement may be created through its registration or based on facts replacing the registration (§8, sections 4 and 6, and § 21).
(2) Applications for the registration of parties and movements (hereinafter the "registration application") shall be submitted by the preparatory committee of the party or movement (hereinafter the "preparatory committee") which is only eligible to carry out activities aimed at creating a party or movement. Only citizens who are at least 18 years of age can become members of the preparatory committee. The registration application shall be signed by all of the members of the preparatory committee and shall include the first name and surname, birth number and place of residence of the preparatory committee members. In addition, they shall indicate which member of the preparatory committee is authorized to act in its name. The preparatory committee shall attach the following documents to the registration application:
a) a petition signed by at least one thousand
citizens requesting the creation of the party or movement. Each citizen signing the petition is obliged to write his/her first name and surname, birth number and place of residence,
b) two copies of the articles (organisational rules) which shall include:
1. the name and abbreviation of the party or movement;
2. its seat;
3. its programme objectives;
4. the bodies and the form of their appointment, including statutory, arbitration and auditing bodies;
5. the appointment of the bodies authorized to act in the name of the party or movement;
6. provisions related to the organisational units, if they will be established and act on their own behalf;
7. the manner in which the statutory bodies of the party or movement, eventually the bodies of its organisational units, shall act and sign;
8. the principles of economic management;
9. its way of disposing with the asset balance, resulting from the liquidation of assets and liabilities if the party or movement is wound up, unless such balance reverts to the state (§ 13, section 7).
(3) The name and abbreviated name of the party or movement shall significantly differ from the names and abbreviations of other parties and movements already acting on the territory of the Slovak Republic, in order to prevent interchangeability (amended by Act No. 47 of January 1993).
(4) The seat of a party or movement shall be on the territory of the Slovak Republic.