E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.1 Page 12 the Bobruisk group, first having claimed that the legal address was not in order, then the charter, and finally that the application was submitted too late. The authorities also insisted that the Mogilev group seeking initial registration must first pass an expert analysis and would not accept confirmation from the Minsk Society that it belonged to the same religious confession. The Bobruisk community could apply for registration as a new religious organization. Since the applicants had described themselves as "Vaishnavis" rather than Krishna devotees, the Mogilev group was reportedly deemed to be liable for expert analysis, although the 2002 religion law stipulates that this is the case only for religious confessions new to Belarus. These terms are allegedly synonymous. -The authorities in Brest had returned re-registration applications to six autonomous Bapt ist churches in the region. Moreover, the banks where two of the six had accounts closed these accounts at the request of the authorities. The six congregations had refused to accept a provision in the 2002 religion law stipulating that a religious organization may function only within the borders of the territory upon which it is registered. This was reportedly confirmed by Vasili Marchenko, the Brest regional religious affairs official. Maintaining that a similar restriction exists for all legal personalities in Belarus, Mr. Marchenko specified that the territory in question constituted the limits of a town or city if that was where an organization was registered or the several neighbouring small settlements or villages where founding members live. Response from the Government dated 18 July 2005 46. The Government stressed that eight Full Gospel Christian communities have been re-registered to date. The Government informed that it was decided not to reregister the Full Gospel New Life Church because it did not have a legal address. In the application, the legal address was cited as a farm building. A Commission inspected the building and found it to be in a poor state of repair. Furthermore, many of the provisions of the religious community’s charter did not conform to current legislation; for this reason two of the organizers of the religious meetings held at the aforementioned address were fined under administrative law. With a view to resolving the issue, the organizer of the New Life Church was invited on two occasions to re-register the community using a new legal address. To date, the State authorities are unaware that the religious community has taken any such decision. 47. The Government informed that Full Gospel Word of Truth Church in Dzerzhinsk is the only one of 11 Full Gospel churches that has not completed official re-registration formalities. This is because it lacks a legal address. Article 17 of the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations Act provides that a religious community must submit an application accompanied by a document confirming the organization’s right to occupy the premises cited in the Charter. In this case the application did not contain such a document and it also lacked required reports by official bodies authorized to conduct public heath and town planning inspections. Accordingly, the application could not be forwarded to the Minsk Provincial Executive Committee for re -registration.