1) The nominating organisation shall be registered by the regional election commission or the National Election Commission, depending on to which it was notified.

(2) In a by-election, the election commission competent to register the candidate or the list shall register the nominating organisation.

(3) Upon the notification of an association, the association shall make a statement that it complies with the requirements for associations set out in paragraph

(4) and that it does not use, regarding the election concerned, foreign support and support from any Hungarian legal person or organisation without legal personality, anonymous donation or any asset element originating therefrom for the purpose of performing any activity aimed at influencing or attempting to influence the will of voters. The election commission shall register an association as nominating organisation if it has made such a statement.

(4) An association that requests its registration as nominating organisation and a registered association shall not use, regarding the election concerned, foreign support and support from any Hungarian legal person or organisation without legal personality, anonymous donation or any asset element originating therefrom for the purpose of performing any activity aimed at influencing or attempting to influence the will of voters. If a violation is suspected, the State Audit Office shall check compliance with the provisions of this paragraph.

(5) Where, following the registration as nominating organisation of an association, the State Audit Office establishes that the association violated the provisions of paragraph (4), the association shall pay twice the amount of support to the central budget within fifteen days after being called upon to do so by the State Audit Office.

(6) If an association violates the provisions of paragraph (4), the State Audit Office shall inform thereof the tax authority and, for a public-benefit-status association, the court that registered the association.

(7) If an association fails to comply with the obligation under paragraph (5) within the time limit, the state tax authority shall collect the debt as taxes at a request by the State Audit Office.

(8) Upon the notification of a national minority organisation, the organisation shall make a statement that the organisation complies with the requirements for national minority organisations set out in the Act on the rights of national minorities.