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Article 16
 

 (1) The electoral authorities to be convoked by their chairman shall hold their constituting meeting on the twenty-first day after the qualifying date at the latest.

(2) In this meeting the assessors and substitute assessors shall, before taking up their office, swear to the chairman their strict impartiality and diligent performance of their duties by means of handshake. The same oath shall be declared by the assessors and substitute assessors who are appointed after the constitutive meeting of the electoral authority.

(3) The precinct electoral authorities in Vienna and in the communities with more than 20.000 inhabitants can also be convoked to the constitutive meeting on a later date. The same applies to electoral authorities whose constitution has subsequently become unavoidable due to one of the reasons mentioned in § 14 al. 4.