Article 15 of Law no. 101 of 28 November 1994 shall be amended as follows:

 “Art. 15

(Impediments to the referendum)

Within 12 months no more than one round for the holding of one or more abrogative referenda can be held.

All referenda for which petitions have been lodged within the fixed deadlines shall be grouped in one round.

An abrogative referendum cannot be held in the six months preceding or following general elections and elections for the appointment of at lest five Heads of Township Councils and relevant Councils and in any case not before a period of six months has elapsed from the holding of the above mentioned elections.

The Captains Regent shall fix the date of the referendum in the cases regulated by the preceding paragraph by issuing a decree at the end of the period laid down above.

The early dissolution of the Great and General Council or the need for early elections of at least five Heads of the Township Councils and their respective Councils shall cause the suspension of the referendum procedure. The suspension shall be declared by means of a Regency Decree. Another Regency Decree shall provide for the reopening of the procedure suspended under the terms established in the third paragraph of this article.”