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Section 17
 

(1) With the exceptions laid down in section 26, section 28, section 35 (3) and section 171 (1), only voters who are recorded in the central electoral register and have an address in Hungary


a) located in the settlement in question may be members of the polling station commission and the local election commission; where the settlement of the election commission belongs to a joint local government office, the address in Hungary may be located in any of the settlements belonging to the joint local government office,


b) located in the parliamentary single-member constituency in question may be members of the parliamentary single-member constituency election commission,


c) located in the county in question or, if applicable, in the capital may be members of the regional election commission,


d) may be members of the National Election Commission.


(2) Persons who are eligible to stand as a candidate at the election of the Members of the National Assembly may be elected members of an election commission and delegated members of the National Election Commission.


(3) Persons who have a university degree in law may be elected members and members delegated pursuant to section 27 (1) of the National Election Commission.


(4) Only persons who are eligible to stand as a candidate at the election in question may be delegated members of an election commission.