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Article 38
All activities regarding the organisation and implementation of the elections of National Councils shall be carried out by the Ministry and bodies
in charge of the implementation of the elections in accordance with this Law.
Obligations of public information services regarding the elections of National Councils
Article 39
The public information services shall be obliged to monitor the electoral activities and report on the elections of National Councils.
Laws regulating public information on the electoral procedure shall be also applicable to public information regarding the elections of National
Councils.
Article 40
Dissolution of the National Council and the provisional governance body
The Ministry shall issue a Decision dissolving the National Council if:
1) The National Council has not convened for more than six months;
2) President of the National Council is not elected within 60 days upon the Council’s establishment or the end of former President’s term of
office;
3) It fails to draw up the Statute within the deadline stipulated under this Law.
The Ministry Decision from paragraph 1 of this Article is final and administrative proceedings may be initiated against it.
Until the constitution of the new composition of the National Council, all current and urgent matters under the National Council’s jurisdiction
and scope of work shall be executed by the provisional body of the National Council, which consists of a president and four members.
The Provisional Body shall be established by the Ministry Decision and shall consist of the National Council members, bearing in mind the extent
to which the electoral lists, from which National Council members have been chosen, are represented.
The National Council members’ term of office
and the expiry of the National Council membership
Article 41
The National Council members shall be elected to a four-year term of office and may be re-elected to the same position.
Membership of a National Council member shall cease before the expiry of the term of office to which he/she has been elected, in one of the
following ways:
1) By handing in his/her resignation;
2) By starting a job or assuming a position that is incompatible with National Council membership;
3) By losing one of the universal pre-conditions for the acquisition of the active right to vote;
4) If he/she does not take part in a National Council’s work for more than a year with no sound reason;
5) In case of death;
6) If his/her residence at the territory of the Republic of Serbia expires;
7) If, according to the final decision of the competent body, he/she has been erased from a special electoral register of members of a national
minority, in case the National Council was elected directly;
8) If a person has been sentenced by the final verdict for minimum of six months imprisonment
At its first session, following the reception of the notification explaining the reason for the expiry of National Council membership, the National
Council shall pronounce the day when the National Council membership ceases.
Once the National Council member’s mandate has expired, his/her seat in the National Council shall be taken by the candidate on the electoral
list, which included the member whose mandate has expired, and shall be appointed by the electoral list nominator.
Convention of the first session of the National Council
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