CAIRO, April 15 - RAPSI, Alexander Yelistratov. The Supreme Administrative Court of Egypt will rule on the legality of the general parliamentary elections and the referral of the new election law to the Supreme Constitutional Court on April 21, a court official told journalists on Sunday.

In early March, the Cairo Administrative Court postponed the elections to the House of Representatives set for April 22, referring the election law to the Supreme Constitutional Court for review.

The court explained that President Morsi had signed the amended election law before the Supreme Constitutional Court had a chance to review it and ensure that it conformed to the constitution. Mohamed Morsi recently said that the elections could be postponed until October, but no official resolution regarding the date change has been published.

The upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, had been working to amend the election law for the past few weeks. Last Thursday it approved it and sent the wording to the Supreme Constitutional Court to check the legality of the voting procedures. The court has 45 days to review the bill. However, if the administrative court rules on April 21 that there were no legal grounds for the lower court to cancel the elections, voting will begin the very next day, on April 22.