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Article 95
 

95.-(1) The President of the Folketing shall notify the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Interior about a referendum to be held on a parliamentary bill or a bill having received the Royal Assent.

(2) The Prime Minister shall announce the bill or the act in the Official Gazette stating the day of the referendum. A referendum according to the Act of the Constitution section 20(2) and section 42 shall be held no sooner than 12 and not later than 18 weekdays after its announcement.

(3) A referendum takes place in the same polling districts as do general elections.