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KOREA - Public Offical Election Act

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Article 24

(Constituency Demarcation Committee)

(1) The Constituency Demarcation Committee for the National Assembly Members shall be established within the National Assembly and the
constituency demarcation committee for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members shall be established within the relevant City/Do, respectively in
order to ensure the fair demarcation of the constituencies for the National Assembly members and the constituencies for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun
council members (hereinafter referred to as "constituencies for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members").

(2) The Constituency Demarcation Committee for the National Assembly Members shall consist of not more than 11 members through a consultation between the Speaker and representative members of the negotiating groups, and such members shall be commissioned from among the persons recommended by the academic circles, legal circles, press circles, civil groups and election commissions.

(3) The constituency demarcation committee for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members shall be comprised of not more than 11 members who are commissioned by the Mayor/Do Governor from among the persons recommended by the academic circles, the legal circles, the press circles,
the civil groups, the City/Do council and the City/Do election commission.

(4) Any National Assembly member, any local council member and any political party member shall be prohibited from becoming a member of
the Constituency Demarcation Committee for the National Assembly Members and the constituency demarcation committee for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members (hereinafter referred to as "Constituency Demarcation Committee").

(5) A member of the Constituency Demarcation Committee shall serve without pay, but he/she may receive daily allowances, travel expenses, and
other actual expenses.

(6) A government agency or local government, when requested by the Constituency Demarcation Committee to provide material necessary for
constituency demarcation activities, shall immediately comply therewith.

(7) The Constituency Demarcation Committee shall prepare a draft constituency demarcation according to the standards provided for in the
provisions of Articles 25 (1) and 26 (2). In such cases, the Constituency Demarcation Committee for the National Assembly Members shall submit
a report containing the grounds of preparing such draft constituency demarcation and other necessary matters to the Speaker of the National Assembly and the constituency demarcation committee for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members shall make such report to the Mayor/ Do Governor by six months before the election is to be held at the expiration of the terms of office of relevant National Assembly members or the relevant autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members, respectively.

(8) The Constituency Demarcation Committee for the National Assembly Members shall, in preparing a draft constituency demarcation, provide the
political parties having seats in the National Assembly with an opportunity to state their opinions on demarcation of constituencies.

(9) The constituency demarcation committee for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members shall, when it prepares a draft constituency demarcation,
give any political party that holds its seats in the National Assembly and the relevant autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council as well as the head of such council opportunities to state their opinions with respect to such draft constituency demarcation.

(10) When the National Assembly revises the provisions governing the constituency for a National Assembly member or the City/Do council revises the Municipal Ordinance governing the local constituency for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members, they shall pay regard to the draft constituency demarcation prepared by the Constituency Demarcation Committee.

(11) Necessary matters concerning the composition and operation of the Constituency Demarcation Committee for the National Assembly Members
shall be determined by the National Assembly Regulations and necessary matters concerning the composition and operation of the constituency demarcation committee for the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members shall be determined by Presidential Decree.