Regular elections of the Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Adjara shall be held in last Saturday of October of the calendar year during which the term of authority of the Supreme Council is expired. The President of Georgia shall call the date of elections of the Supreme Council by cosigning of Prime-minister of Georgia.

Any citizen of Georgia with the right to vote who has attained the age of 25 prior to or on the day of elections can be elected as a member of the Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Adjara and who resided in Georgia at least five years. A person sentenced to imprisonment by a court ruling may not be elected as a member of the Supreme Council.

The Supreme Council consists of 18 deputies elected by the proportional system and 3 deputies elected by the majoritarian system elected for 4 years by Georgian citizens with the right to vote registered on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara on the basis of universal, free, equal and direct suffrage.

A majoritarian candidate who receives more than half of the votes cast in elections, shall be considered elected in the majoritarian election district. The number of votes recorded on invalid ballot papers shall not be included in the number of votes cast in the election.

Under the proportional electoral system, the mandates of the members of the Supreme Council will be distributed to those electoral subjects who have received at least 5 percent of the actual votes cast in elections. The number of votes recorded on invalid ballot papers shall not be included in the number of votes cast in the election.