(1) The following may not be members of an election office:

a) a representative,

b) a deputy mayor,

c) a member of an election commission,

d) a candidate,

e) a member of a nominating organisation that nominates a candidate in the constituency in question, and

f) a relative of a candidate standing for election in the constituency in question.

(2) The prohibition referred to in paragraph (1) f) shall not apply to the member of a local election office who acts exclusively as keeper of the minutes at the polling station commission of a polling district that is not included in the polling district where his relative stands as a candidate at the election.

(3) If a cause of incompatibility or conflict of interest arises concerning the head of a regional election office, he shall be required to notify it to the president of the National Election Office without delay, who shall dismiss him and appoint a new head to the office. If a cause of incompatibility or conflict of interest arises concerning the head of a local election office or the head of a parliamentary single-member constituency election office, the head of the regional election office shall, in agreement with the president of the National Election Office, establish the incompatibility or conflict of interest with respect to the head of the local election office or the head of the parliamentary single-member constituency election office, respectively, and shall assign the election office of another settlement or parliamentary single-member constituency to perform, in whole or in part, the tasks of the election office.

(4) If a cause of incompatibility or conflict of interest arises concerning a member of an election office, he shall be required to inform the head of the election office of it without delay, and the head of the election office shall dismiss him.

(5) If the head of a local election office or the head of a parliamentary single-member constituency election office does not perform his official duties specified by law, thus jeopardising the lawful conduct of elections, paragraph (3) shall apply.

(6) If in a polling district designated under section 78 within the territory of competence of a local election office, the voting is not closed within thirty minutes after the conclusion of voting at the latest, the president of the National Election Office shall inform the government office of this fact, initiating that disciplinary proceedings under the Act on the local governments of Hungary be launched.

(7) The decisions under paragraphs (3) and (5) shall be published on the official election website.