1. After signing the protocol on election results in the respective electoral district, the Central Election Commission, district election commissions shall immediately send a notice of this to the registered candidates elected to the State Duma. A registered candidate who was elected deputy of the State Duma shall, within five days from the date of receipt of the notice, submit to the respective election commission a copy of the order (another document) to release him from duties incompatible with the status of deputy of the State Duma, or a copy of the document certifying that within three days from the date of receipt of the notice, he filed an application to be exempt from such duties.

2. If a registered candidate, was elected deputy of the State Duma in the federal electoral district, does not fulfil the requirement of Part 1 of this Article, his mandate shall be considered vacant, and shall be given by the Central Election Commission to another registered candidate from the same federal list of candidates in the order provided by part 8 of Article 89 of this Federal Law. Such mandate cannot be given to a registered candidate elected to the State Duma, who also failed to comply with the requirement of part 1 of this Article, or refused a mandate in accordance with part 3 of this Article, if his mandate is vacant.

3. A registered candidate who was elected deputy of the State Duma in the federal electoral district, within five days from the date of receipt of the notice referred to in part 1 of this Article, shall have the right to refuse the mandate by submitting to the Central Election Commission a written application. In this case, his mandate shall be considered vacant, and shall be given by the Central Election Commission to another registered candidate from the same federal list of candidates, in accordance with the procedure provided by part 8 of Article 89 of this Federal Law. Such mandate cannot be given to a registered candidate elected to the State Duma, who failed to comply with the requirement of part 1 of this Article, or refused a mandate in accordance with this provision, if his mandate is vacant. 4. Submission by a registered candidate elected deputy of the State Duma in the federal electoral district of the application referred to in part 3 of this Article shall not entail the exclusion of such registered candidate from the federal list of candidates admitted to the distribution of mandates. 5. If a registered candidate elected to the State Duma in a single-mandate electoral district does not fulfil the requirement under part 1 of this Article, the Central Election Commission shall annul election results in the district and appoint new elections. If this requirement is not fulfilled by a registered candidate without compelling circumstances provided for by part 9 of Article 56 of this Federal Law, resulting in repeat elections, all expenses from the federal budget, incurred by election commissions in preparing and conducting repeat elections, shall be reimbursed by such registered candidate. 6. After the official publication of general election results to the State Duma and the fulfilment by the registered candidate elected to the State Duma of the requirement provided for in Part 1 of this Article, the respective election commission shall register such deputy and issue a certificate of election to the State Duma.