(1) Settlement-level national minority self-government candidates shall be notified on the thirty-fourth day before the day of voting at the latest.

(2) Settlement-level national minority self-government candidates shall be registered by the local election commission.

(3) Candidates shall also declare that

a) they will take on the task of representing the national minority;

b) they speak the language of the national minority community and know its culture and traditions.

(4) The election commission shall verify in the register of candidates that the candidates had not stood as a candidate of a different national minority in the last two general elections of national minority self-governments or subsequent by-elections.