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If the number of voters on the voting register represented by each parliamentary seat, allocated or distributed, becomes in one electoral districtone half of the number represented by each parliamentary seat in anotherelectoral district, the National Election Board shall revise the number of seats representing each electoral district with the aim of reducing this difference. This shall be provided for in further detail by law.

Provisions of law relating to election district boundaries and the methods of allocating seats in Parliament can only be amended by a two-thirds majority in Althingi.

Article 32
Sessions of Althingi are held in one chamber.

Article 33
All persons who, on the date of an election, are 18 years of age or older and have Icelandic nationality have the right to vote in elections to Althingi. Permanent domicile in Iceland, on the date of an election, is also a requirement for voting, unless exceptions from this rule are stipulated in the law on elections to Althingi.

Further provisions regarding elections to Althingi shall be laid down in the law on elections.

Article 34
Every national having the right to vote in elections to Althingi and an unblemished reputation is eligible to be elected to Althingi.

Supreme Court Judges, however, are not eligible.

IV.
Article 35
Althingi shall convene for a regular session every year on the 1st of October or, if the day falls on an official holiday, on the following weekday, and continue in session until the same date the following year, unless the election period of Members of Althingi has elapsed earlier or Althingi has been dissolved.

The opening date of the regular session of Althingi may be changed by law.

Article 36
Althingi is inviolate. No person may disturb its peace or violate its freedom.