(1) If, by any reason save the temporary inability to attend, an assessor or substitute assessor does not discharge his duty in the electoral authority, the party having submitted the proposal for his appointment shall submit a new proposal for the vacant office.
(2) Officers, who may appoint precinct polling officers, permanent representatives or certain deputies to the electoral authorities in case of inability to attend, and parties having submitted proposals for the appointment of assessors and substitute assessors are also permitted to withdraw the appointed persons from the electoral authorities and to replace them by new persons at any time.
(3) If a party, entitled to propose assessors and substitute assessors to be appointed to an electoral authority in a provincial constituency, did not submit a provincial election proposal (§ 42) or the proposal was not made public (§ 49), those assessors and substitute assessors shall lose their offices in the respective provincial electoral authority and in all subordinate electoral authorities, however, in the federal electoral authority only in case the party has in no provincial constituency submitted a provincial election proposal or in no provincial constituency their provincial election proposals have been made public. In this case all offices of the assessors and substitute assessors shall be redistributed among the campaigning parties according to § 15 al. 3 whether or not they are currently represented in the electoral authority.
(4) If, following the National Council elections, the constitution of an electoral authority does no longer correspond with the provisions of § 15 al. 3, the modifications shall be carried out in proportion with the new strength of the parties.
(5) For the modifications according to al. 1 to 4 the provisions of § 14 al. 1 to 3, 5 and 6, and the §§ 15 and 16 shall be applied accordingly, however, for modifications according to al. 4, subject to the proviso that the determined period begins on the thirtieth day following the day of election.
(6) The electoral authorities established before each election and possibly modified according to al. 1 to 5 remain in office until the constitution of the electoral authorities on the occasion of the next election.
