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1. Political parties shall be registered in the Register of Legal Entities.
2. The documents which must be submitted for the registration of a political party in the Register of Legal Entities, and its removal thereof, and the procedure for the registration of a political party in the Register of Legal Entities, and its removal thereof, also registration of changes in the data or the Statute of a political party shall be set out in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities.
3. The authenticity of the data presented by political parties to the Register of Legal Entities, the compliance of the Statute, programmes or their amendments with the requirements of laws shall be attested and the documents confirming that the political party may be registered because the requirements set out by this Law have been fulfilled and the circumstances provided for in this Law have emerged shall be issued by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of Justice) within 30 days from the day of receipt thereby of all documents and data specified in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities.
4. In the event of failure by a political party to present all the documents and data specified in the Register of Legal Entities, the Ministry of Justice shall, not later than 15 days from the receipt thereof, inform, in writing, a representative authorised by the founders of the political party, specifying the shortcomings which must be eliminated. When all missing documents and data have been presented, the 30 days' term shall be counted anew from the day of presenting these documents and data.
5. The Ministry of Justice shall refuse to attest the authenticity of the documents submitted by a political party, the compliance of its Statute, programmes or their amendments with the requirements of laws, where the purposes, objectives and methods of activities of the political party indicated in the Statute, programme of the political party or the amendments thereof conflict with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, this Law and other laws, and the presented data are not correct. When verifying the authenticity of the presented data or attesting the compliance of the Statutes, programmes, their amendments with the requirements of laws the Ministry of Justice shall have the right to appeal to other public authorities and obtain findings from them.
6. The refusal by the Ministry of Justice to attest the authenticity of the data submitted by a political party, the compliance of its Statute, programmes, their amendments with the requirements of laws may be appealed in court in accordance with the procedure laid down by law.
7. Political parties shall be considered founded as of the day of their registration in the Register of Legal Entities.
8. Political parties intending to participate in elections shall, not later than 65 days before the first elections to be held that year, submit their membership lists to the Ministry of Justice in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. If a political party does not intend to participate in the first elections to be held that year, it may submit the said lists not later than 65 days before another election to be held that year in which the party intends to participate. The membership lists shall indicate the name, surname, date of birth, and the residence address of the members of the political party. These data must be confirmed by the signature of the leader of the political party. Computer media containing these lists shall also be presented to the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice shall notify the Central Electoral Committee that the number of the members of the political party meets the requirements of this Law.