27. (1) No one who is a candidate for election in the appropriate multimember constituency can be a member of or a substitute in the election committee.
(2) If a member of the local council who is a born member of the election committee, cf. the third and fourth sentences of section 23(3) and (4), stands as a candidate in a multimember constituency, the local council shall elect from among its members a person who shall join the election committee in place of the member concerned.
