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12. Submission of the question proposed for a local referendum
 

(1) After the submission of the question, no other question with the same content shall be submitted


a) within sixteen days following the rejection, by virtue of subsection (1) of section 40, by the head of the local election office if no re-submission was made,


b) until the decision to refuse the certification of the question becomes final,


c) until the local referendum initiative is withdrawn,


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


e) until the resolution to refuse to order the holding of the local referendum becomes final,


f) until the day on which the local referendum is held, or


g) until the expiry of the period under subsection (2) of section 60.


(2) For any case falling within paragraphs a)-e) of subsection (1), and within thirty days following the date mentioned in those paragraphs, no question with the same content shall be submitted by the same organiser, or by the same initiator falling under paragraphs a) and b) of subsection (1) of section 34.


(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 body of representatives.