Measures for Election of Deputies from the Chinese People's Liberation Army to the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses at or Above the County Level (Revised in 1996)

Measures for Election of Deputies from the Chinese People's Liberation Army to the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses at or Above the County Level (Revised in 1996)

Order of the President [1996] No. 79


October 29, 1996

(Adopted at the 19th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on June 10, 1981, revised at the 22nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on October 29, 1996, and promulgated for implementation by Order of the President [1996] No.79 on October 29, 1996)

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 These Measures are enacted in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China(1993) and the Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses of the People's Republic of China.

Article 2 Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on active service and other persons who take part in election in the PLA shall, according to these Measures, elect their deputies to the National People's Congress or local people's congresses at or above the county level.

Article 3 An election committee shall be established for the PLA as a whole and for any PLA unit at or above the regimental level.
The PLA Election Committee shall direct the election work of the entire PLA. Election committees at other levels shall conduct the election work of the units at their own levels respectively.

Article 4 The servicemen committees of companies and other grassroots units shall conduct the election work of their own units.

Article 5 Members of the PLA on active service, persons who have retired from active service and for whom arrangements have been made in the PLA or who are waiting to be transferred to local governments for arrangements, workers and office staff serving in the PLA, and other persons who are administratively affiliated to the PLA, shall take part in election in the PLA.
Family members of officers who live together with the officers may, with the approval of the election committee or the servicemen committee, take part in election in the PLA, if it is difficult for them to take part in local election because the residential area of the local inhabitants is far from the place where the PLA unit is stationed.

Article 6 PLA representatives stationed in civilian factories or railway, water transport or scientific research institutions, and PLA members studying at civilian colleges and schools may take part in local election.

Article 7 All the persons listed in Article 5 of these Measures who have reached the age of 18 shall qualify as voters and have the right to vote or stand for election, regardless of ethnic status, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status or length of residence.
Persons who have been deprived of political rights according to law shall have no right to vote or stand for election.
Persons who suffer from mental illness and are incapable of exercising their electoral rights, when verified by an election committee as such, shall not take part in election.

Chapter II Election Committees

Article 8 The members composing the PLA Election Committee shall be subject to approval of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The members composing the election committee at any other level shall be subject to approval of the election committee at the next higher level.
Election committees at lower levels shall be subject to the direction of election committees at higher levels.

Article 9 The PLA Election Committee shall be composed of nine to fifteen members, including one chairman and one to three vice-chairmen.
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