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Article 17
 

With Article 16 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003, Article 17 was amended.


Members of the Serbian national minority shall elect three representatives to the Parliament as stipulated in the Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities.


With Article 6, paragraph 1 of the AAAECSP (Official Gazette 145/10), which entered into force on 1 January 2011, paragraph 1 was amended; however, Article 6 of the AAAECSP (Official Gazette 145/10) was repealed pursuant to a Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia of 29 July 2011 (Official Gazette 93/11), which entered into force on 10 August 2011.


Members of the Hungarian national minority shall elect one representative to the Parliament.


Members of the Italian national minority shall elect one representative to the Parliament.


Members of the Czech and Slovak national minorities shall jointly elect one representative to the Parliament.


Members of the Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Ruthenian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vallachian and Jewish national minorities shall jointly elect one representative to the Parliament.


Members of the Albanian, Bosniak, Montenegrin, Macedonian and Slovenian national minorities shall jointly elect one representative to the Parliament.
Members of national minorities in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall nominate a candidate as representative and a candidate as substitute representative, the two standing jointly for election.


With Article 6, paragraph 2 of the AAAECSP (Official Gazette 145/10), which entered into force on 1 January 2011, the digit: "1! was deleted; however, Article 6 of the AAAECSP (Official Gazette 145/10) was repealed pursuant to a Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia of 29 July 2011 (Official Gazette 93/11).


Members of the national minorities in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of this Article shall nominate only a candidate for representative, and the substitute shall become the candidate representative receiving the next greatest number of votes after the elected representative.