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Article 1
 


The Status of Central Election Commission

 

1. The Central Election Commission (hereafter – the Commission) is a permanently functioning collegial state body, which shall work on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine, this and other laws of Ukraine and be assigned the authorities to organize the preparation and conduct of elections of the President of Ukraine, of people’s deputies of Ukraine, of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic Crimea, of deputies of local councils and of village, settlement and city heads, as well as nationwide and local referenda in accordance with the procedure and within the limits established by this and other laws of Ukraine.

 

2. The Commission presides over the system of election commissions and commissions on referendum, which are formed to organize the preparation and conduct of elections of the President of Ukraine, of people’s deputies of Ukraine and the all-Ukrainian referendum. The Commission shall exercise control over the activities of and render consultative-methodological support to the election commissions which are formed to organize the preparation and conduct of the elections of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic Crimea, deputies of local councils and village, settlement and city heads, as well as to commissions on local referenda.

 

3. The Commission is a legal person; it has a seal with its name.