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pages are being printed, a bill introducing modifications into the
act of July 23rd, 1884 concerning the electoral register, is before
the Storthing. The legal conditions for acquiring or losing the
right of citizen will be mentioned later on.
After § 53 of the fundamental law the right of voting is
forfeited by conviction of certain crimes and misdemeanours,
as also by entering the service of a foreign power without the
consent of the government, by acquiring citizenship in a foreign
state, and finally by the purchase of votes, etc.
According to § 52, the right of voting is suspended by being,
before a court of justice, accused of crimes which may entail
defamatory punishments (for particulars see appendix).
The decisions of the election committees on the complaints of
voters for not being admitted to vote or for not being entered on
the register, etc., may be appealed against to the Storthing.
As secondary electors can only be chosen those who are entered
on the register of the rural parish or of the town, and whose
right of voting is not suspended. Every primary voter of an
election district may be elected as its representative if he has filled
30 years. Only ex-ministers can be elected representatives for a
district other than their own.
Ministers in office, and functionaries of the government
departments, and dignitaries and functionaries of the court are
inelegible.
The mandate as representative is obligatory except for those
who have been ministers and are elected outside of their own
districts. If a representative has been present at three ordinary
sessions of a period he can decline the mandate for the following
triennial period.
The representatives are paid as an indemnity 12 kroner a day
and their travelling expenses.
The Storthing meets for the ordinary sessions every year
(formerly every three years). It assembles on the first working day
after the 10th day of October, but has a Christmas vacation of
about four weeks. Under § 80 of the fundamental law, the king’s
consent is necessary, if it wishes to sit for more than two months.
The sessions of late years have lasted about 6 or 7 months.
The king opens each session with a speech from the throne,
as soon as the Storthing is constituted. He also pronounces the
prorogation.
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