(1) The President of the Republic shall fix the date of the referendum within fifteen days after the inconclusive expiry of the deadline for legal remedy against the parliamentary resolution ordering the referendum, or – in the case of a legal remedy – after the adjudgment of that legal remedy.

(2) The referendum may be called even if

a) a referendum has been previously called by the President of the Republic for another question, and

b) there are at least fifty days left until the date of the referendum, and

c) the holding on the same date of the referendum on the new question does not jeopardize the legal conduct of the voting.

(3) No national referendum shall be called on the day of the general election of, Members of Parliament, Members of the European Parliament, municipal representatives and mayors, and within a period of forty-one days before and forty-one days after that day. If, in consequence of this, the national referendum cannot be called, the national referendum shall be called within a period of 131 days after the election.

(4) The resolution ordering the referendum and calling the date of the referendum shall be published in the Official Gazette of Hungary.