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Article 164
 

Return of Money Received by Candidates, Registered Candidates, Political Parties and Blocks of Political Parties to Their Own Accounts During Elections to the Milli Majlis.

164.1   If there is no money in the election fund or it is short of money a registered candidate, a political party or block of political parties shall return budget money, as well as cost of free airtime and space in periodicals allocated for political parties and blocks of political parties from their own funds.

164.2   If a block of political parties is responsible for returning budget money allocated for payment of free airtime presented and space allocated in a periodical, the money to be returned shall be proportionally distributed among the political parties included in that block before voting day, with a condition, unless otherwise is provided for in the joint decision on creation of the block of political parties and submitted to the Central Election Commission.

164.3   If a registered candidate who is not considered by Article 161 of this Code undertakes to submit a final financial report and to return the funds in conformity with this Code, he/she can return funds to the relevant Constituency Election Commission within 12 months effective from voting day.

164.4   If a political party, block of political parties which is not considered by Article 161 of this Code and which has not fulfilled the requirements of Article 162.1 of this Code, before it submits its final financial report, undertakes obligations to TV and Radio companies and periodicals to pay the relevant funds, it can be given time to pay budget money, for used free airtime and free space in periodicals within a 12 month period effective from voting day.

164.5   If obligations considered by Articles 164.3 and 164.4 of this Code are not fulfilled and if the period mentioned in obligations on returning the funds expires, that money shall be returned by the court. If a registered candidate who is not considered by Article 161 of this Code and who has not fulfilled the requirements of Articles 164.3 and 164.4 of this Code does not undertake obligations mentioned in Articles 164.3 and 164.4 of this Code before political parties or block of political parties shall submit their final financial report, the money shall be returned by the court before the period for submission of the final financial report expires.

164.6   If a candidate or registered candidate loses his/her status, the obligations charged to the candidate, registered candidates by Article 164 of this Code shall be imposed on a person who was considered as candidate or registered candidate. Shall the candidate or registered candidate be nominated by a political party, blocks of political parties, the obligations charged by Article 164 of this Code to the political parties and block of political parties will be imposed on the political parties including those which entered the block of political parties, after elections finish.

164.7   The Central Election Commission shall provide the Constituency Election Commission with a list of citizens who have obligations to the election commissions within 5 days after Constituency Election Commissions are formed and after a decision on determination of main, repeat or by-elections is officially published.

164.8   A person, who has debts for budget funds to the election commission during the main, repeat and by-elections and on the date of official publication of decision on determination of the elections, shall not have the right to get funds from the state budget, regardless of what constituency he/she has been nominated for.