COMELEC: Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting

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RESOLUTION No. 7447

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THE RESUMPTION OF REGISTRATION
OF QUALIFIED OVERSEAS ABSENTEE VOTERS

PURSUANT TO SECTION 7 OF R.A. 9189
AND AMENDING PERTINENT PROVISIONS
OF COMELEC RESOLUTION NO. 6117

Promulgated: 18 March 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Introduction

Part I	Application for Registration/Certification as Overseas Absentee Voter

	Section 1	Declaration of policy
	Section 2	Meaning of words
	Section 3	Publication and posting of notice of registration and election
	Section 4	Period to file applications
	Section 5	Time and filing of applications
	Section 6	Who may register
	Section 6	Who may register
	Section 7	Who may not register
	Section 8	Requirements for registration/certification
	Section 9	Registration/Certification Procedures
	Section 10	Duties and Functions of the RERB
	Section 11	Procedures before the RERB
	Section 12	Hearings of applications
	Section 13	Petition for exclusion
	Section 14	Petition for inclusion
	Section 15	Field or mobile registration
	Section 16	Application to vote in absentia
	Section 17	Inclusion in the National Registry of Overseas Absentee Voters (NROAV)
	Section 18	Voters excluded from the National Registry of Absentee Voters through inadvertence or registered with an erroenous or misspelled name

Part II	Transfer of Registration Records

	Section 19	Procedure for transfer of registration records
	Section 20	Notice of change of address pending approval of the application for registration/certification

Part III	Concluding Provisions

	Section 21	Preparation and posting of Certified List of Overseas Absentee Voters (CLOAV)
	Section 22	Access to official records and documents
	Section 23	Applicability of other COMELEC Resolutions
	Section 24	Enforcement and administration by the Commission
	Section 25	Separability clause
	Section 26	Effectivity
	Section 27	Dissemination

Annex A	Application for Registration/Certification as Overseas Absentee Voter (.PDF format)
Annex B	Letter-Request for Transfer of Registration Record (.PDF format)
Annex C	Transmittal Report (.PDF format)
Annex D	Certification (.PDF format)
Annex E	Application for Transfer/Transfer with Reactivation (.PDF format)
	Notice of Registration and Election to All Filipino Citizens (.PDF format)