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(1) A political party that satisfies the conditions in Section 3 may apply to register the party's name in the Register of Political Parties at the Brønnøysund Register Centre.
(2) Before the party can be registered in the Register of Political Parties, it must be registered in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and be allocated its own organisation number, cf. Section 5 of Act on the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. When the party has been registered in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, the entry in the Register of Political Parties will be based on the information registered there.
(3) Registration in the Register of Political Parties gives the party the exclusive right to field candidates for election under the registered name.