(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9.10 and Article 4.24 of this Law, a political entity which, in the direct elections held on 1 October 2006, received a compensatory mandate that remained vacant, shall be awarded the mandate for the candidate with the highest number of the received votes from the regular candidate list at the same electoral level of that political entity.

(2) The Central Election Commission of BiH shall enact a separate regulation in order to govern the method of implementation of this Article.