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Section C3
 

  1. If the date specified in section C1, subsection 2, or in section C2 falls in a year in which an election to the provincial councils or the municipal councils is being held, the members of the House of Representatives shall retire simultaneously on a date to be determined by the President of the House of Representatives, on the Thursday between 19 and 25 May. 


  1. Members of the House of Representatives elected to fill the places of members who have retired on the date referred to in subsection 1 shall, unless the circumstance referred to in subsection 1 arises again, retire simultaneously on a date to be determined by the President of the House of Representatives, on the first Thursday in the period referred to in section C1, subsection 2, after three years have elapsed since the meeting of the central electoral committee at which the result of the election was announced.