(Installation and Operation of Overseas Polling Places)

(1) An overseas election commission shall install and operate an overseas polling place in a mission with a fixed period of not exceeding six days
(hereafter referred to as "period of overseas voting" in this CHAPTER) in  the period from 14 days to nine days before the election day.

(2) Where an overseas election commission cannot install an overseas polling place in a mission unavoidably by reasons such as narrowness of a
mission, notwithstanding paragraph (1), it may install an overseas polling place in a substitutive institution for a mission.

(3) An oversea election commission shall publicly announce the name, location, operating period, etc. of an overseas polling place under paragraph (1) by not later than 20 days before the election day on Internet homepage or such.

(4) An overseas election commission shall have clerks for vote in an overseas polling place from among persons who are fair and neutral, and the
names of such clerks shall be publicly announced together, when the name of an overseas polling place is publicly announced.

(5) An overseas election commission shall designate one member, who is not a member recommended by a political party, as a responsible member to
authorize the member to take charge of voting management in the relevant overseas voting polling station: Provided, That a member not designated
as a responsible member may also participate voluntarily in voting management and may present his/her opinions on voting management to the responsible member.

<Amended by Act No. 11207, Jan. 17, 2012>

(6) An overseas election commission shall open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. everyday in the period of overseas voting, regardless of statutory holidays.

<Amended by Act No. 11070, Sep. 30, 2011>

(7) Articles 163, 166, 166-2 and 167 (excluding the proviso to paragraph (2)) shall apply mutatis mutandis to overseas polling places. In such cases, "Eup/Myeon/Dong election commissions and their upper class election commissions" shall be construed as the "National Election Commission
and overseas election commissions", "polling places" shall be construed as "overseas polling places", "official in charge of voting management" shall
be construed as "responsible member of an overseas polling place," and "on the election day" shall be construed as "in an overseas polling place."

<Amended by Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010; Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011>

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 9466, Feb. 12, 2009]