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Article 15
 

(1st Article of Law 2234, amended 17 May 1979) (44th Article of Law 5375, amended 29 June 2005.) The Provincial Electoral Board is formed in the last week of January every two years and it is composed of a chairman who is the top senior judge assigned for that province, and two other senior members whose ranks follow the chairman of the central District Electoral Boards. The Board also has two subsidiary members who are judges as well. Established as such, The Provincial Electoral Board serves for a term of two years. The ranks of the judges are determined according to the 15th Article of Law 2802 on Judges and Prosecutors, on 24 February 1983. However, judges those have been condemned or forfeited due to serious indiscipline, are considered less senior in this rank determination.



In case one of the judges appointed as the member or the subsidiary member or the chairman of the Provincial Electoral Board is somehow unable to implement his/her task and no other judge is present to replace his/her position; a judge who is already assigned within the jurisdiction territory of the criminal court of that province and whose absence in his former position would not create problems, is authorized for the position by his superiors.
When it is not possible to replace this position by appointing judges within the jurisdiction territory of the criminal court of that province, one of the judges who are assigned within the jurisdiction territory of the nearest criminal court is authorized and assigned for the position according to the procedures above.
Until the judge who is authorized as such takes over the responsibility, a member elected amongst the members of the board by secret vote performs the chairmanship of the election board.