(Effective Date:1983.03.05–Ineffective Date:)
PROVISIONS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS FOR THE DIRECT ELECTION OF DEPUTIES TO PEOPLE’S CONGRESSES (Adopted at the 26th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People’s Congress on March 5, 1983) To facilitate the implementation of the Electoral Law of the National People’s Congress and Local People’s Congresses of the People’s 1. An election committee shall be established in every county, autonomous county, city not divided into districts, municipal district, An election committee establishes an office to handle specific matters related to the election. 2. The functions and powers of an election committee shall be: (1) assume responsibility for the election of deputies to the people’s congress at the corresponding level; (2) conduct the registration of voters, examine the voters’ qualifications and publish the name list of voters; handle and decide (3) divide electoral districts for the election of deputies to the people’s congress at the corresponding level and allocate the number (4) decide on and publish the official list of candidates for deputies on the basis of the opinions of the majority of voters; (5) fix the date for the election; (6) determine the validity or invalidity of the election results and publish the names of the deputies elected. The election committee in a county, autonomous county, city not divided into districts or municipal district directs the work of the 3. Mentally ill persons unable to exercise their voting rights shall not do so after confirmation of their cases by an election committee. 4. Upon decision by a people’s procuratorate or a people’s court, people who are held in custody for involvement in counterrevolutionary 5. The following persons shall be allowed to exercise their voting rights: (1) those who are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, who are undergoing criminal detention or who are under public surveillance (2) those who are being held in custody and who are subject to investigation, prosecution or trial without having been suspended from (3) those who are awaiting trials on bail or subject to residential surveillance; (4) those who are undergoing rehabilitation through labour; and (5) those who are being punished by detention. The above-mentioned persons may participate in the elections at movable ballot boxes or entrust their relatives who have voting rights 6. If the people’s government of a county or an autonomous county is seated in a city, workers and staff members of its affiliated 7. The workers and staff members of enterprises and institutions which are located in a township, a nationality township or a town 8. The size of an electoral district shall be determined according to the principle that one to three deputies may be elected from 9. With the permission of the election committee of their residential areas, voters who are temporarily doing manual or other work Voters who have actually moved out to live in other places but who have not changed their permanent residence registration accordingly 10. The number of candidates for deputies recommended by any voter (seconded by three or more voters) shall not exceed the number All candidates for deputies as recommended by voters or political parties or people’s organizations shall be included in the list Candidates for deputies determined through pre-elections shall be listed officially in order of the numbers of votes they have received.
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