§ Article 8Registration of political parties

1. Political parties shall be recorded in the Register of Legal Persons.
2. The regulations of the Register of Legal Persons shall set out the documents which must be submitted for recording and removal of political parties from the Register, lay down the procedure for recording, removing political parties from the Register, recording changes in data and amendments of statutes of political parties.
3. Reliability of the data presented by political parties to the Register of Legal Persons, compliance of statutes, programmes or their amendments with the requirements of laws shall be attested and the documents confirming that a political party may be registered because the requirements set out by this Law have been implemented and the circumstances provided for in this Law have emerged shall be written out 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 of all the documents and data specified in the regulations of the Register of Legal Persons.
4. In the event of failure to present all the documents and data specified in the Register of Legal Persons, the Ministry of Justice shall, not later than within 15 days from the receipt thereof, inform in writing a representative authorised by the founders of a political party, specifying the shortcomings which must be eliminated. When all lacking documents and data are presented, a period of 30 days shall be counted anew from the day of presenting of these documents and data.
5. The Ministry of Justice shall refuse to attest the reliability of the submitted documents and the compliance of statutes, programmes or their amendments with the requirements of laws, if the purposes, objectives and methods of activities of a 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 do not conform to reality. When verifying the reliability of the presented data or attesting the compliance of the statutes, programmes, their amendments with the requirements of laws shall have the right to appeal to other state institutions and receive findings from them.
6. Refusal of the Ministry of Justice to attest the reliability of the data submitted a political party, the compliance of the statutes, programmes, their amendments with the requirements of laws may be appealed against to the court in accordance with the procedure laid down by law.
7. Political parties shall be deemed to be founded from their recording in the Register of Legal Persons.
8. Each year but no later than by 1 March political parties must, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Government, submit to the Ministry of Justice lists of members of their respective political parties. If a political party was established after March 1, this party does not need to submit a list of its members with respect to elections which will take place prior to March 1 of the next year. The lists of the members of the political parties submitted to the Ministry of Justice must indicate the name, surname, personal number, residence address of a member of the political party. These data must be confirmed by the signature of the leader of the political party. A computer media containing the said lists shall be also submitted to the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice shall examine the lists of the members of the political parties and shall, no later than by April 1 of each year, notify the Central Electoral Committee if the number of the members of the political party meets the requirements of this Law.