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Section H14
 

  1. In the case of an election to a municipal council, a deposit of EUR 225 shall be paid to the municipality for each list.


 



  1. The payment obligation referred to in subsection 1 shall not apply to a list of candidates of a political grouping if its appellation appeared at the top of a list of candidates to which one or more seats were allocated at the last election to the municipal council. The provisions of the previous sentence shall also apply to cases in which the appellations of two or more groupings are combined, if at the last election to the municipal council one or more seats were allocated to the groupings or to at least one of them.


 



  1. The person who made the payment referred to in subsection 1 shall receive proof thereof. This proof must be submitted with the list.


 



  1. If no valid list is submitted, the municipality shall return the deposit to the person who paid it, after the result of the election has been determined.


 



  1. After the result of the election has been determined by the central electoral committee, the deposit shall be returned to the person who paid it, unless the total vote for the list is lower than 75 per cent of the electoral quota referred to in section P 5 and no seat was allocated to the list. In that case the deposit shall be forfeited to the municipality.