(1) The following election commissions shall operate in the election of national minority self-government representatives:

a) the National Election Commission,

b) regional election commissions,

c) local election commissions,

d) polling station commissions.

(2) Nominating organisations may not delegate members to election commissions.

(2a) Each nominating organisation associated with a national minority as regards which a settlement national minority self-government election is held in the settlement may delegate one observer to the polling station. Observers shall only be voters recorded in the central electoral register as voters of the national minority concerned. Persons under section 18 (1) a) to e), g) and h) and members of an election commission or an election office shall not be observers. The provisions of section 5 (4) and (5), sections 29 to 31 and section 32 (3) shall, in other respects, apply to observers.

(3)