6. In the case of subparagraph 4, when any Gu that is not an autonomous Gu becomes an autonomous
Gu, an autonomous Gu council shall be newly formed and the fixed number of the autonomous Gu
council members shall be newly determined by the election boundary delimitation commission for the
autonomous Gu/Si/Gun council members of the relevant City/Do. In this case, the number combined by
the newly fixed number of members shall be made the total fixed number of the autonomous Gu/Si/Gun
council members by the City/Do provided for in the provisions of Article 23.
Article 29 (Election for Membership Increase of Local Council Members)
(1) The election for the membership increase as provided in subparagraph 3 (proviso), 5 or 6 of Article 28
shall be based on the new constituency demarcated as provided in Article 22, 23, or 26, but shall be held
for the constituency in which there are no previous local council members or the number of the previous
local council members falls short of the fixed number of members.
(2) In the boundary delimitation of paragraph (1), the constituency for the previous local council member
shall be the constituency having jurisdiction over his or her domicile at the time of his or her candidate
registration, and if the number of the previous local council members in a newly demarcated constituency
exceeds the new fixed number of council members for the constituency, the number of members,
including those in excess of the new fixed number, shall be the fixed number of members for the
constituency concerned until the general election is held at the expiration of the terms of office,
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 22 or 23.
(3) The affairs concerning the election for the membership increase as provided in paragraph (1), where
the Gu/Si/Gun election commission concerned is not established, may be attended to by the Gu/Si/Gun
election commission designated by the City/Do election commission or having previously had jurisdiction
over the district concerned.
Article 30 (Election in Case of Abolition, Establishment, Division, and Merger of Local Governments)
(1) Where a local government is established, abolished, divided, or merged, the head of the local
government concerned shall be elected as follows: <Amended on Apr. 1, 1995>
1. Where a new Si, autonomous Gu or Metropolitan City is established, the head of the local
government concerned shall be newly elected;
2. Where a local government is divided into two or more local governments of the same category, the
head of the previous local government shall, from among the newly established local governments,
become the head of a local government that has jurisdiction over the district in which the office of the
previous local government is located and the heads of other new local governments shall be newly
elected. In this case, if the office of the previous local government is located in the district under
jurisdiction of another local government, which local government shall elect the new head shall be
determined at the time when Acts regarding the division of a local government are enacted;
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