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Section 66
 

Provisions regarding other election offices


(1) Territorial election offices shall be headed by the clerks of the county self-government or the chief clerk of the Municipality of Budapest.
(2) Parliamentary single-member constituency election offices shall be headed by the municipal clerk of the settlement that is the seat of the parliamentary single-member constituency.
(3) Local election offices shall be headed by the municipal clerk.
(4) If the position listed in (1)-(3) is vacant, the head of the territorial election office shall be appointed by the President of the National Election Office, and the head of the parliamentary single-member constituency election commission or local election office shall be appointed by the head of the territorial election office.
(4a) If the head of the local election office or the head of the single member constituency election office fails to discharge his or her legally obliged duties and by doing so endangeres the legal conduct of elections, the head of the territorial election office – with consent of the President of the National Election Office – may appoint the election office of another settlement or single member constituency to fulfil or partly fulfil its duties.
(5) The heads of election offices shall appoint a deputy from among the members of the election office.