(1) The elections for the MPs shall be held not later than 30 days before the expiration of the mandate of the MPs whose mandate is expiring.

(2) The mandate of the MPs whose mandate is expiring shall end on the day of verification of the mandates of newly elected MPs.

(3) The mandates of the MPs shall be verified on the basis of both the certificate on the election of the MP and the Report of the Republic Electoral Commission on the completion of the elections, within 30 days starting from the day of announcement of the final results of the elections.

(4) At the constitutive session of the National Assembly of Republic of Serbia, a three-member commission shall be formed in order to ascertain the compliance of certificates on the election of the MP with the Report of the Republic Electoral Commission.

(5) Based on the Commission’s Report referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, a person presiding the constitutive session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia shall note that the Republic Electoral Commission has submitted the report on the completion of the elections, and which certificates on the elections of MPs are in compliance with the Report concerned, thus confirming the mandate of newly elected MPs.