(1) The following election commissions shall operate in elections of representatives of national minority self-governments:
a) the National Election Commission;
b) territorial election commissions;
c) local election commissions,
d) polling station commissions.
(2) Nominating organisations may not appoint members to election commissions.
(2a) Nominating organisations associated with a national minority for which national minority self-government elections are held in the settlement may appoint one observer to the polling station. The observers shall be voters listed in the central electoral register as national minority voters of the national minority in question. With regard to other issues, the provisions of Section 5 (4)-(5), 29-31 and 32 (3) shall apply to observers.
(3) The head of the local election office shall supplement the polling station commission using the necessary number of alternate members if the number of voters in the national minority polling district electoral register is over nine hundred.