The Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in its Articles 20-24 stipulates that the Republic of Croatia shall guarantee to members of national minorities the right to representation in the representative bodies of local self-government units and in the representative bodies of regional self-government units.On the basis of thisAct and as a result of theLaw on the amendments to the Law on the Election of Members of Representative bodies of Local and Regional Self-government Units a new Chapter (VIIIa – Elections of Members of the Councils of National Minorities in Self-government Units) was introduced.