Who is responsible for checking the legality of initiatives?

REFERENDUMLAW

(Adopted 2002; lastamended 2012)

http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc_e?p_id=437744

Article 13.Preliminary Examination of Citizens’ Petition to Call Referendum

1. The Central Electoral Committee shall verifywithin 15 days the received documents on calling the referendum. The Central Electoral Committee, having determinedthat the documents meet the requirements of this Law, shall give to the Seimas the final act along with thecitizen’s petitions and its own conclusion.

Article 14.Procedure of Passing Seimas Resolution Regarding Petition to Call Referendum

1. The Seimas, having received a properly registeredfinal act of thegroup along with the citizens’ petitions and the conclusion of the CentralElectoral Committee that the submitted documents correspond to this Law, shalldeliberate the issue of the date of the referendum at the next sitting of theSeimas during the session…

2. Should the group of experts formed in the Seimas arrives at the conclusionthat the referendum text supplied in the citizens’ petition to call areferendum may not be in keeping with the Constitution of the Republic ofLithuania, can be the basis for not calling the referendum.

STATUTEOF THE SEIMAS

(Adopted 1994;last amended 2012)

http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc_e?p_id=443859

Article 135. Requirements for a Draft Submitted forRegistration

2. A draft or proposal submitted to the Seimas forconsideration must be signed by the initiators thereof. When a draft law issubmitted to the Seimas by citizens of the Republic of Lithuania in accordancewith the right granted to them by the Constitution, it shall be signed by therepresentatives authorised by the initiators; the draft shall be accompanied bycitizens’ signatures collected in accordance with the procedure established bythe law.

Article 136. Registration of a Draft Law andSubsequent Activities

3. With respect to a registered draft law, the Legal Department of theOffice of the Seimas shall, within seven working days of the receiptthereof, draw up conclusions on conformity of the draft with the Constitution,laws, principles of legislation and technical rules of law-making and onconformity of the submitted documents to the requirements of this Statute…

Citizens’Initiative: Independent Electoral Commission, Legislature