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specified by notification by the Election Commission under section 102 or section 103, the
Election Commission may specify a new date for election, provided that the election must
be held within thirty days as from the date such necessity ends. However, for the purpose of
the calculation of the term under section 95 (2) and section 97 (2), the date shall be counted
up to the election date prescribed by section 102 or section 103, as the case may be.
Section 105. When an office of a Member of the House of Representatives
becomes vacant for any reason other than the expiration of term or the dissolution of the
House of Representatives, the following proceedings shall be taken:
(1) in the case where the vacancy is that of an office of a Member of the
House of Representatives elected from an election on a constituency basis, a Royal Decree
shall be issued for holding an election of a Member of the House of Representatives to fill
the vacancy, unless the remainder of the term of the House of Representatives is less than
one hundred and eighty days, and the provisions of section 102 shall apply mutatis
mutandis;
(2) in the case where the vacancy is that of the office of a Member of the
House of Representatives on a party list basis, the President of the House of Representatives
shall, by publication in the Government Gazette within seven days as from the date of the
vacancy, elevate the person whose name in the list of that political party is placed in the
next order to become Member of the House of Representatives; if there is no person
remaining in the list to be elevated to fill the vacancy, the Members of the House of
Representatives on a party list basis shall consist of the existing members.
Membership of the replacing Member of the House of Representatives under
(1) shall commence as from the day on which the election to fill the vacancy is held, while
membership of the replacing Member of the House of Representatives under ( 2) shall
commence as from the day following the date of the publication of the name of the
replacing member in the Government Gazette. The replacing member may serve only the
remainder of the term of the House of Representatives.
The calculation of the proportion of votes of a political party for a Member of
the House of Representatives on a party list basis when an election to fill a vacancy is held
shall be in accordance with section 94.
Section 106. After the Council of Ministers has assumed the administration
of State affairs, the King will appoint as the Leader of the Opposition in the House of
Representatives the Member of the House of Representatives who is the leader of a political
party in the House of Representatives with the largest number of members with no
members holding the office of Minister, President of the House of Representatives, or
Vice-President of the House of Representatives.