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Article 27
 

As long as the age at which statutory minority ends has not been lowered to eighteen years, members of provincial and municipal councils shall be required, notwithstanding Article 129 (1), to have attained the age of twenty-one. The point at which the exception to Article 129 referred to in the previous sentence shall cease to apply shall be laid down by Royal Decree.