The Riigikogu Internal Rules Act (RT 1992, 46, 582; RT I 1999, 2, 44; 16, 271; 2000, 25, 145; 2002, 29, 174; 36, 220) is amended as follows:
1) section 11 is amended and worded as follows:
"§ 11. The alternate member of a member of the Riigikogu who is elected in an electoral district is the first candidate of the same political party to be registered as an alternate member who stood as a candidate in the same electoral district. The alternate member of a member of the Riigikogu who is elected on the basis of a compensation mandate is the first candidate of the same political party to be registered as an alternate member who stood as a candidate in the national list.
If the political party has no more candidates who are registered as alternate members in the electoral district, the first candidate of the same political party to be first registered as an alternate member who stood as a candidate in the national list shall be the alternate member.
If a member of the Riigikogu to be substituted stood as a candidate outside the lists or if there are no more registered alternate members in the same list, the alternate member designated on the basis of an additional mandate which is distributed between the national lists and registered with the National Electoral Committee shall become a member of the Riigikogu.
The authority of the person who last assumes membership of the Riigikogu as an alternate member from among the candidates of the same political party in the same electoral district or in the national list terminates due to restoration of the authority of the member of the Riigikogu either:
1) on the day on which the President of the Riigikogu ceases to perform the duties of the President of the Republic, or
2) on the day on which the member of the Riigikogu is released from the duties of a member of the Government of the Republic.";
2) Subsection 12 (1) is amended and worded as follows:
"(1) "The assumption of membership of the Riigikogu by an alternate member or the termination of his or her authority, on the basis of § 11 of this Act and the list of alternate members of the Riigikogu registered by a resolution of the National Electoral Committee, shall be formulated by a resolution of the Board of the Riigikogu or, in the case provided for in subsection 4 (2) of this Act, by a resolution of the National Electoral Committee."
