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Article 11
 

The Powers of Central Commission

 

The Central Commission:

a) Leads the work of referendum commissions;

b) Oversees the legality and provides the equal application of this law during the organization and conduct of referendum;

c) Considers the decisions adopted by the referendum commissions, received applications and complaints regarding the actions and inactivity of the referendum commissions, reviews or invalidates the decisions that contradict the laws and decisions of Government of Republic of Armenia, that contradict the decisions of referendum commissions adopted within their competences, as well as the decisions of the referendum commissions adopted in excess of their powers, eliminates the violations of citizens' rights occurred in the result of actions or inactivity of the referendum commissions;

d) Takes decisions and other normative acts providing for the application of the provisions of this law and obligatory for all commissions;

e) Gives clarifications and instructions on the implementation of this law;

f) Listens to reports of state and local self-governing bodies on the issues relating to the preparation and conduct of the referendum;

g) Disposes the financial means allocated for the conduct of the referendum, distributes those between the commissions, oversees their fulfillment;

h) Undertakes measures for providing the referendum commissions with territories, material, technical and communicational means corresponding to the required work conditions of the referendum commissions;

i) Establishes the samples of ballots and other referendum documents;

j) Establishes the forms of seals of commissions, orders them and allocates to the commissions, defines the procedure for the return of the seals after the referendum

k) Provides the publication of the draft submitted to referendum to the mass media

l) Accredits the representatives of mass media and international organizations implementing observation mission according to a procedure defined by itself

m) Defines a single procedure for summarization of referendum results

n) According to the requirements of the Electoral Code of Republic of Armenia summarizes and announces the results of referendum, provides the submittal of corresponding documents to the archive

o) Organizes trainings for the members of referendum commissions

p) In case of a violation of the requirements of this law as well as with the issues of organization of referendum, applies to relevant competent bodies

r) implements other powers defined in this law and in the Electoral Code of Republic of Armenia