If, following the application of the provisions of this chapter, there is no longer any candidate eligible for appointment on the list for which the person who must be replaced was elected and this list forms a group of lists or a combined list with one or more other lists, the seat shall pass to one of the other lists pursuant to section P 13 or section U 13. The candidate on this list who is eligible for appointment according to the order determined in accordance with section P 19 or section U 15 respectively shall be declared appointed. If there is no longer any candidate eligible for appointment on this list either, the place shall be awarded to another list forming part of the group or combination by the further application of the provisions of this subsection, and so forth.
For the purposes of subsection 1, the first lists to be eligible shall be those which, together with the list in question, form a group of lists and thereafter the lists which have been merged with it to form a combined list.
