(1) In settlements with more than ten thousand inhabitants, the head of the local election office shall be responsible for the arrangement of single-member constituencies. The head of the local election office shall in advance seek the opinion of the local election commission as regards the arrangement of constituencies; however, this opinion shall not be binding to the head of the local election office.

(2) Single-member constituencies shall be arranged in a manner to ensure that

a) they form contiguous areas;

b) the number of voters who are eligible according to the central electoral register be approximately the same in each of them.

(3) When arranging single-member constituencies, the number of eligible voters in a single-member constituency may not deviate from the arithmetic mean of eligible voters in each single-member constituency at the settlement by a rate exceeding fifteen per cent taking into account the settlement structure related, geographical and other local characteristics.