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Section 17
 

(1) With the exceptions laid down in Sections 26, 28, 35 (3) and 171 (1),


a) only voters having an address in the settlement in question or, in the case of the election commission of a settlement belonging to a joint municipality office, voters having an address in any of the settlements belonging to that joint office, and included in the central electoral register may be members of polling station commissions and the local election commissions;


b) only voters having an address in the constituency in question and included in the central electoral register may be members of parliamentary single-member constituency election commissions;


c) only voters having an address in the county in question or the Capital and included in the central electoral register may be members of territorial election commissions; and


d) only voters having an address in Hungary and included in the central electoral register may be members of the National Election Commission.


(2) Persons who are eligible to stand as candidates in the election of Members of Parliament may be eligible to become elected members of election commissions and appointed members of the National Election Commission.


(3) Persons who meet the criteria listed in (2) and have a university-level law degree may be eligible to become elected members of the National Election Commission.


(4) Persons who are eligible to stand as candidates in the election in question may be eligible to become appointed members of election commissions.