(1) The term of office of an elected member of a body of authority at all levels shall terminate before the expiration of the mandate for which he or she was elected:
on the day when he/she resigns;
if he/she has been recalled in accordance withlaw;
on the day of his/her death;
on the day when a court judgment becomes final and binding by which he/she has been sentenced to a prison sentence of six (6) months or longer;
on the day when a court decision becomes final and binding by which he or she has been deprived of legal capacity (declared mentally incompetent);
on the day when he or she is elected or appointed to an office which is incompatible with the office of an elected member of a certain body as stipulated by law;
if he/she has cancelled his/her permanent residence on the territory of the constituency in which he/she was recorded as a voter in the Central Voters Register and from which he/she was elected, after the end of a six-month-period following the date of cancellation; or
if for reasons stipulated by law he or she loses the right to be elected.
(2)The mandate of an elected member of a body of authority at any level shall terminate on the day when one of the reasons for termination established by law occurs. The Central Election Commission of BiH shall, within maximum fifteen (15) days after the reasons for termination have occurred or became known, take the decision to terminate the mandate of an elected member of a government authority and shall notify thereof the government authority in which the elected member had the mandate.
(3) If an elected member of a body of authority resigns, the resignation shall be completed on a form produced by the Central Election Commission of BiH.
