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Article 9
 

Deleted.


With Article 8 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003, paragraph 1 was deleted.


A representative may not simultaneously perform the duty of a representative and hold any of the following offices: judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, judge, state attorney, deputy state attorney, ombudsman, deputy ombudsman, prime minister or deputy prime minister of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, minister or other member of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, deputy minister, assistant minister, director of a state administrative institution, deputy director of a state administrative institution, secretary general of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, secretary general of a ministry, chief of staff of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and director of agencies of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, chief of staff of the president of the Republic of Croatia, director of the Office of the National Security Council, ambassador, general consul, county prefect or deputy county prefect, mayor or deputy mayor of the City of Zagreb, an active duty military person, civil servant or employee of the Armed Forces, a member of the management board of a company, institution or non-budgetary fund that is predominantly in state ownership, and the head of a legal person that is required by law to submit reports to the Parliament.


Paragraph 2 was partly amended by Article 8 of the AAAECSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003, and by Article 1 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 19/07), which entered into force on 16 February 2007.


With Article 8 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, former paragraph 2 that became paragraph 1 was partly amended.


For the duration of the mandate, a representative may accept the pursuit of an office deemed incompatible pursuant to the provisions of this Act.


With Article 8 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, paragraph 2 was partly amended.


While occupying the incompatible office, the mandate term shall be suspended, and the representative is to be replaced by a substitute pursuant to the provisions of this Act.


Voters and political parties may not nominate persons sentenced to an unconditional punishment of incarceration over six months in duration by a court decision in full force and effect if at the moment of the entry into force of the decision to call an election the punishment is being enforced or to be enforced.
Voters and political parties may not nominate persons whose rehabilitation terms under a special law have not expired at the moment of the entry into force of the decision to call an election, and who were sentenced by a court decision in full force and effect for any of the following:


1. criminal offences stipulated in Title IX of the Criminal Code (Official Gazette 125/11 and 144/12) against humanity and human dignity:


- genocide, a crime of aggression, a crime against humanity, a war crime, terrorism, terrorist association, torture, slavery,


2. criminal offences stipulated in Title X of the Criminal Code (Official Gazette 125/11 and 144/12) against life and body: aggravated murder.


With Article 8 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, paragraph 4 was added.