Payment for the Work of Members of the Election Commission and Persons Recruited to Work in the Commission
1. The work of a member of the election commission, who exercises his/her authority in the election commission on the payment basis, shall be remunerated in the amount and in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, out of the funds of the State Budget of Ukraine allocated for the preparation and holding of the elections.
2. The size of salary of a member of the election commission, who is dispensed from his/her production or official duties at his/her principal place of employment, may not be lower than his/her average salary at his/her principal place of employment, nor higher than the size of the salary of a people’s deputy of Ukraine.
3. Members of the election commissions may be paid a lump-sum allowance in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission, and within the limits of general savings on the wages fund provided for by the estimate of expenditures of the respective election commission for the preparation and holding of the elections of deputies.
4. The work of members of the election commissions (including pensioners and temporarily unemployed persons), except for those who are dispensed from their production or official duties at their principal place of employment, during the day of elections and the days of summing-up the voting results shall be paid in the amount and in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
5. The work of the persons described in Paragraph 18 of Article 25 hereof shall be paid out of the funds of the State Budget of Ukraine allocated for the preparation and holding of the elections, as well as within the limits of the approved estimate of expenditures.
