An electoral committee shall have a chairman, an even number of members and their substitutes.

The chairman and members of the electoral committee and their substitutes shall be appointed from among residents who have permanent residence in the municipality.

Political parties, other residents' organisations in the municipality and residents may submit their proposals for the appointment of the chairman and members of the electoral committee and their substitutes to the municipal electoral commission no later than ten days after the calling of elections.

The chairman, a member of the electoral committee and their substitutes cannot be a spouse, father, mother, child, sister or brother, adoptive parent or adopted child of a candidate in the constituency in which such electoral committee is appointed, nor may they live in a non-marital union or registered same-sex partnership with a candidate.

A person appointed to an electoral committee shall be obliged to inform the competent municipal electoral commission within three days of the public announcement of the candidatures or lists of candidates of his or her family or other relationship with a candidate referred to in the preceding paragraph.

When submitting the proposals referred to in paragraph three of this Article, the proposer must provide for each of the candidates for chairman and members of the electoral committees and their substitutes the candidate's written statement that he or she agrees to the appointment to the electoral committee and his or her written statement that, within three days of the public announcement of candidatures or lists of candidates, he or she shall inform the competent electoral commission of a family or other relationship with a candidate referred to in paragraph four of this Article.

If the chairman, a member of the electoral committee or the substitute thereof and a candidate are in a family or other relationship referred to in paragraph four of this Article, his or her office in the electoral committee shall cease, while the competent electoral commission shall dismiss him or her and appoint the substitute chairman or a member of the electoral committee or a substitute thereof. The candidate for the substitute chairman or member of the electoral committee or the substitute thereof must deliver a written statement that he or she agrees to the appointment to the electoral committee and a written statement that he or she is not in a family or other relationship referred to in paragraph four of this Article.