(1) The term of office of an elected member of a body of authority at all levels shall terminate before the expiration of the mandate for which he or she was elected:
on the daywhen he/sheresigns;
if he/she has been recalled in accordance with law;
on the dayofhis/herdeath;
on the day when a court judgment becomes final and binding by which he/she has been sentenced to a prison sentence of six (6) months or longer;
on the day when th ecourt judgment becomes final and binding by which he/she has been imposed security measureof banof carrying outa certain occupation, activity or duty which is the office of an elected member of a body of authority;
on the day when the court judgment becomes final and binding by which he/she has been imposed a sentence which entails a legal consequence incident to theconviction of cessation of such an official duty and termination of such an employment;
on the day when acourt decision becomes final and binding by which he or she has been deprived of legal capacity (declared mentally incompetent);
on the day when he or shei selected or appointed to an office which is incompatible with the office of an elected member of a certain body as stipulated bylaw;
iif he/she has cancelled his/her permanent residence on the territory of the constituency in which he/she was recorded as a voter in the Central Voters Register and from which he/she was elected, after the end of a six-month-period following the date of cancellation; or
if for reasons stipulated by law he or she loses the right to be elected.
on the day when the decision of the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina has become final finding that the elected official did not act in accordance with the provisions of Article 1.8a, 1.8b or 1.8c of the Election Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(2) The mandate of an elected member of a bodyof authorityat anylevel shall terminate on the daywhen one of thereasons fortermination established bylaw occurs. TheCentral Election Commission of BiH shall, within maximum fifteen (15) days after the reasons for termination have occurred or became known, take the decision to terminate the mandate of an elected member of a government authority and shall notify thereof the government authority in which the elected member had the mandate.
(3) If an elected member of a body of authority resigns, the resignation shall be completed on a form produced by the Central Election Commission of BiH.
