When applying this Act
a) state leader shall mean persons subject to the force of the law on the legal status and responsibility of the members of the Government and state secretaries;
b) county/capital-clerk shall mean the county, capital recorder;
c) independent candidate shall mean a candidate nominated not by a nominating organisation;
d) kin shall mean lineal kin and spouse thereof; adoptive and foster-parent; adopted and foster-child; sibling, spouse, common-law companion; lineal kin, sibling of spouse; and sibling's spouse;
e) clerk shall mean settlement clerk, district clerk;
f) type of nomination shall mean single mandate constituency, regional list, national list nomination in the election of Members of Parliament; list nomination in the election of the Members of the European Parliament; mayors'/the capital Mayor's, common regional list, single mandate constituency, compensation list, county/metropolitan list and minority common regional list nomination in the election of the representatives and mayors of local governments;
g) nominating organisation shall mean political parties registered pursuant to Act XXXIII of 1989 on the Operation and Financial Functioning of Political Parties, and social organisations registered pursuant to Act II of 1989 on the Freedom of Association; nominating organisations putting forward joint candidates or setting up joint lists shall be considered one nominating organisation;
h) representative shall mean Members of Parliament, Members of the European Parliament, members of the body of representatives of settlement municipalities, members of county general assemblies, members of the metropolitan general assembly, members of minority municipalities;
i) persons submitting initiatives shall mean in the event of referendums initiated by citizens and popular initiatives the organisations and private persons that have submitted the initiative;
j) candidate of minorities shall mean independent candidates undertaking the representation of some national or ethnic minority determined under the Act on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities, or candidates of the minority organisation;
k) minority organisation shall mean a social organisation that, in accordance with the court registration, represents a national or ethnic minority determined under the Act on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities;
l) poster shall mean election placards, advertisements, notices, handouts, projected images, flags, emblems irrespective of the carrier material;
m) mayor shall mean the mayor of the settlement, the Mayor of Budapest;
n) settlement shall mean communities, towns/cities, cities having county rights, districts of the capital;
o) election campaign shall mean the statement of the election program; the promotion of candidates, lists, nominating organisations; the organisation of election meetings; the placement of posters; the use of volunteers.
p) first name and family name shall mean the name used in marriage, the first name and family name at birth;
q) domicile shall mean the address of the flat or, for lack of it, except for Hungarian citizens and non-Hungarian citizens living abroad, of the rooms, abode used in need that the voter uses as his/her home on a regular basis in his/her normal life, if he/she has notified it to the particulars and address register as address.
r) foreign representation shall mean the embassy and consulate general of the Republic of Hungary.
