a)          after § 1, § 1a shall be added and read as follows:

“§ 1a. The President of the Republic of Poland shall order by-elections to the Senate also in the event of failure to elect a senator.”,

b)         in § 2, the first sentence shall read as follows:

“A by-election shall be ordered and held within 3 months from the date of the determination of the expiration of the senator’s mandate, and in the case referred to in § 1a - within 3 months from the election day on which a senator’s seat was not elected.”,

c)          in § 3, the first sentence shall read as follows:

“The provisions of Article 194 shall apply accordingly in matters of ordering the elections referred to in § 1 and 1a, except that the order of the President of the Republic of Poland on by-elections shall be promptly made public by the National Electoral Commission, by the announcement, in the constituency in which the elections are to be held.”;