(1) Members of the Republic Electoral Commission and their deputies shall be appointed for a period of four years, and members of polling boards and their deputies shall be appointed for each election.

(2) Members and deputy members of electoral bodies can neither be in the direct line of consanguinity, irrespective of the degree of kinship, nor in the collateral line up to the third degree of kinship and, if in in-law kinship, up to the second degree, inclusive, nor spouses and persons in mutual relationship of adopter and adoptee or guardian and ward.

(3) In case the electoral commission or a polling board are composed contrary to the provision of paragraph 2 of this Article, such authority shall be dismissed and the elections and/or voting shall be repeated.

(4) Deputy members of the Republic Electoral Commission and polling boards shall have the same rights and responsibilities as the members whose deputies they are.

(5) The suffrage in the Republic Electoral Commission or a polling board shall only be vested in the member of this authority or, in case of his/her absence, in his/her deputy.