Constitutional complaint inadmissible due to late filing caused by misaddressed mail

The Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint as filed out of time, upholding the procedural bar against the complainant. The dispute centered on the timeliness of a constitutional complaint which, although deposited at the post office within the statutory deadline, was addressed to an unauthorised body and transferred to the competent court only after the filing period had expired. Relying on § 82(1) of the Austrian Constitutional Court Act, the Court applied the strict legal doctrine that such late transfer renders the complaint procedurally inadmissible, thereby rejecting the submission despite the complainant's timely initial postmark.