Article 13. Membership in the Central Election Commission

A citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan who reached the age of twenty-five, as a rule, has a higher education, a work experience in organization and conduct of elections, has an authority among public and permanently residing in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan for at least the last five years may be a member of the Central Election Commission.

Citizens whose state of conviction for committing serious and especially serious crimes was not completed or not cancelled, military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan, employees of the State Security Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan, other militarized units, professional staff of religious organizations and associations may not be members of the Central Election Commission.

A member of the Central Election Commission may not be a member of another election commission or a political party.

A member of the Central Election Commission, registered as a candidate for President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a candidate for deputy of the Legislative Chamber and the local Kengash, a candidate for member of the Senate, a proxy, is considered to have resigned from the commission.

Powers of the member of the Central Election Commission may be terminated by the chambers of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan directly or upon the recommendation of the body which nominated him/her to membership, in the following cases:

submission by him/her of a written application for resignation;

he/she was recognized by the court as incapable;

entry into force of the court's sentence against him/her;

systematic failure to perform his/her duties;

election or appointment to a position, the occupation of which in accordance with the law is incompatible with the exercise of the powers of a member of the Central Election Commission;

recognition of him/her as missing or declaring dead on the basis of a court decision that has entered into legal force;

loss of citizenship of the Republic of Uzbekistan or renunciation of citizenship of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

his/her death.

A new member of the Central Election Commission shall be elected in accordance with the procedure established by the present Code.

Members of the Central Election Commission cannot engage in other types of paid activities, except scientific, creative and pedagogical.