864. If the provision contemplated in the first paragraph of section 863 provides that the consultation of the qualified voters may or must be preceded by an application from a certain number of them, only those entitled to have their names entered on the referendum list shall be considered and the provisions of this Act which concern the manner in which the rights of a legal person may be exercised, the manner in which qualified voters entitled to have their names entered on the referendum list and the applications demanding that a referendum poll be held are counted, apply, adapted as required, to an application contemplated in this paragraph.
If the required number of such applications is reached, a referendum poll shall be held without registration procedure.
For the purposes of this section, the date of reference used to determine who are the qualified voters is the date on which the person for whom they are intended receives the required number of applications.