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Article 76
 

(1) Parties and coalitions shall pay the production costs of the ballots they use to run the elections. The number of the ballots printed shall be equal to the number of voters in the country plus ten per cent.
(2) Initiative committees and independent candidates for Parliament shall pay the production costs of the ballots which the candidates use to run the elections, The number of ballot printed for each independent candidate shall be equal to the number of voters in the multi-seat constituency plus ten per cent.
(3) The Council of Ministers shall announce the production costs of the ballots not later than 45 days prior to the election day.
(4) Parties and coalitions shall provide the Central Election Committee with a bank document on the transfer of the amount under para 1 to the account of the Council of Ministers not later than 31 days prior to the election day.
(5) Initiative committees or independent candidates shall provide the Constituency Election Committee with a bank document on the transfer of the amount under para 2 to the account of the Council of Ministers not later than 31 days prior to the election day. Constituency Committees shall advise the Central Election Committee of the transfer forthwith.
(6) Where a party or coalition fails to present a bank document on the transfer under para 4, the Central Election Committee shall cancel the registration and the election tickets registered thereof and advise all Constituency Election Committees forthwith.
(7) Where an initiative committee of an independent candidate it has nominated fails to present a bank document on the transfer under para 5, the Constituency Election Committee shall cancel the registration of the initiative committee and the independent candidate and advise the Central Election Committees forthwith.