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Article 197
 

Transitional provisions   If an election or a consultative referendum is conducted before 90 days has passed from the coming into force of this Act, the regulations which were in force when this Act came into force apply. In respect of a Parliamentary election that is conducted on the 21st March 1999 or prior to that date, and in respect to a Presidential election and the European Parliamentary elections that are to be conducted before the parliamentary election conducted prior to the parliamentary election referred to here, what is laid down regarding the division of the electoral districts in section 1 of the Act on Parliamentary elections and not what is laid down regarding division of the electoral districts in section 5 of this Act. Is to be applied   According to section 3 of the Act on Parliamentary elections, the parliamentary term of a central committee continues until the election district committee has been appointed as is laid down in section 11. The central election committee of a municipality that is appointed by the Council for their parliamentary term, according to section 4 of the Act on Municipal elections, functions as the central election committee for the said municipality, as referred to in section 13, until the end of the parliamentary period.   After this Act has come into force, references in other Acts or statutes to the Acts thus annulled are considered as referring to this Act.