• 1. The members of the island councils are elected by those who are residents of the public body on the day of nomination and have reached the age of eighteen on the day of voting.

• 2. Those who are not Dutch nationals must, in order to be eligible to vote on nomination day, also meet the following requirements:

o a. they are lawfully residing in the Netherlands pursuant to Article 3 or Article 6 of the BES Admission and Expulsion Act or pursuant to a treaty between an international organization and the State of the Netherlands concerning the seat of this organization in the Netherlands, and

o b. they were residents of the Netherlands for an uninterrupted period of at least five years immediately prior to nomination day and held a right of residence as referred to under a, or were lawfully residing in the Netherlands pursuant to Article 8, under a, b, c, d, e, or l, of the Aliens Act 2000.

• 3. Those who are not Dutch nationals and are employed in the Netherlands as members of diplomatic or consular missions sent by other states, as well as their non-Dutch spouses, registered partners, or life companions, and children, insofar as they share a household with them, are not eligible to vote.