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Article 55
 

Conduct of Elections of Local Rada Deputies, and of Village, Settlement, City Chairman in the Event of Formation of a New Administrative-Territorial Unit

1. In the event of formation of a new administrative-territorial unit, local elections in this territory shall be appointed respectively by the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, by oblast rada, Kyiv city and Sevastopol city rada.

2. Elections of deputies, of village, settlement, city chairman in a newly formed administrative-territorial unit shall be conducted in the order and within the terms established by this Law, with the following peculiarities:

1) territorial election commissions shall be formed, respectively, by the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, by oblast rada, Kyiv city rada, Sevastopol city rada;

2) territorial election commission shall, according to this Law, determine the general number of deputies for the respective rada, form election constituencies as well as polling stations, constituency and polling station election commissions if the bodies of local self-government, within the competence of which there falls formation of the specified commissions and polling stations, are absent in the respective territory;

3) deputies of local rada, respectively village, settlement, city chairman in a newly formed administrative-territorial unit shall be elected for the period until deputies, village, settlement, city chairman are elected at the regular local elections and the respective rada is formed in a competent complement upon the results of such elections.