Section 6
SEC. 6. Section 7 of the same Act is hereby renumbered as Section 10 and amended to read as follows: "SEC. 10. Approval or disapproval of application and petition for inclusion.—Upon receipt of the sworn application for registration, the election registrar shall set it for hearing, notice of which shall be posted in the municipalities building for at least three days before the hearing the date of the hearing, the election registrar shall receive whatever evidence that may be submitted for or against the application. He shall submit the application and the evidence to the election registration hoard at its next meeting; and the board shall, by majority vote, act upon the application; and should it fail to do so within two consecutive meetings, including the meeting at which the application has been submitted to it, the application shall be deemed to have been approved. Upon approval, the election registrar shall forthwith issue the corresponding identification card to the registered voter. "If the election registration board disapproves the application, the applicant shall be furnished with a certificate of disapproval wherein the ground for the disapproval shall be stated. The applicant may at any time except forty-five days before a regular election or twenty-five days b a special election file with the Justice of the Peace Court or the Court of First Instance of the province a petition for his inclusion, which shall be decided within fifteen days after filing. If the decision is for the inclusion of a voter in the permanent list of voters, the election registrar shall activate the application for registration which has been previously denied, by placing said application in the corresponding precinct book of voters wherein the order of inclusion by the court shall be entered and shall mail or deliver to the voter his identification card. If the decision is adverse, the right of appeal as heretofore granted by existing laws shall be available."