§ Article 14Procedure of Passing Seimas Resolution Regarding Petition to Call Referendum

1.The Seimas, having received a properly registered final act of
the group along with the citizens’ petitions and the conclusion of the Central Electoral Committee that the submitted documents correspond to this Law, shall deliberate the issue of the date of the referendum at the next sitting of the Seimas during the session. The representatives of the referendum group shall be invited to participate in this sitting. The resolution of the Seimas on the date of calling the referendum shall be passed in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Seimas Statute, no later than within one month from the day on which the discussion issue of the date of calling the referendum has been started.
2.Should the group of experts formed in the Seimas arrives at the conclusion that the referendum text supplied in the citizens’ petition to call a referendum may not be in keeping with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, can be the basis for not calling the referendum.