(Responsibilities of Public Officials for Neutrality)

(1) A public official or a person who is required to maintain political neutrality (including an agency and organization) shall not exercise any unreasonable influence over the election or perform any act likely to have an effect of the election result.

(2) Where it is deemed that any violation of this Act is committed, the public prosecutor (including the military prosecutor) or national police officer (including the prosecutory investigator and military judicial policeman) shall crack down on and investigate the violation immediately and fairly.

<Amended by Act No. 7849, Feb. 21, 2006>