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2. Submission of the proposed referendum question
 

(1) No other question with the same content shall be submitted


a) after that a final resolution, under subsection (3) of section 22, of the National Election Commission has stated that the number of valid signatures is at least two hundred thousand,


aa) until the resolution refusing to order the referendum has become final,


ab) until the referendum has been held, or


ac) until the expiry of the period under subsection (2) of section 31,


b) after that the National Assembly has ordered the referendum in a legally binding way by virtue of the second sentence of subsection (1) of Article 8 of the Fundamental Law,


ba) until the referendum has been held, or


bb) until the expiry of the period under subsection (2) of section 31.


(2) Following the submission by the organiser of the question proposed for referendum, no other question with the same content shall be submitted by the President of the Republic or by the Government


a) within sixteen days following the rejection under subsection (1) of section 10 by the president of the National Election Office if no re-submission has been made,


b) until the expiry under subsection (1) of section 29 of the deadline for submitting judicial review requests against the decision concerning the certification of the question, if no judicial review request against the decision refusing to certify that question has been submitted,


c) up until 0.00 o’clock on the day after the publication under subsection (3) of section 30, in the Official Gazette of Hungary, of the resolution of the Curia


ca) upholding the decision of the National Election Commission to refuse the certification, or rejecting, without an in-depth examination, the judicial review request submitted against that decision, or


cb) altering the decision of the National Election Commission certifying the question,


if a judicial review request against the decision concerning the certification of the question has been submitted,


d) until the referendum initiative is withdrawn,


e) until the deadline for the submission of signature sheets expires inconclusively,


f) until the resolution refusing to order the referendum has become final,


g) until the referendum has been held, or


h) until the expiry of the period under subsection (2) of section 31.


(3) Two questions shall be considered as having the same content if they would impose wholly or partly identical, or mutually exclusive, obligations on the National Assembly.