14.-(1) The Minister for the Interior allocates to the parties entitled to nomination a letter designation with which the parties are listed on the ballot papers. In the allocation due regard shall be made in respect of the preservation of letter designations which the parties had in previous elections.
(2) Soonest possible after the expiry of the time-limit in section 12(1), the Minister for the Interior shall promulgate in the Official Gazette which parties are entitled to nomination and the letter designations allocated to these parties.
