(1)     Prior to the opening of the ballot box, all unused ballot papers shall be removed from the polling table. First, the number of voting endorsements in the voters' register and the number of polling cards collected shall be established. Then the ballot papers shall be taken from the ballot box, unfolded and counted. If no consensus is established even after repeated counting, this shall be minuted and, if possible, explained in the election record.

 
(2)     If it is established in accordance with subsection (1), second sentence, that fewer than 50 voters have cast their votes, the Constituency Returning Officer shall require the Electoral Board of the relevant polling district (delivering Electoral Board) to hand over without delay the locked ballot box, the voters’ register, the certificate of closure and the polling cards collected to the Electoral Board of another, specified polling district of the same constituency (receiving Electoral Board) for the purpose of determining and establishing the election result jointly. A notice stating where the election result is being  determined and established jointly must be affixed to the polling station of the delivering Electoral Board. The objects to be handed over pursuant to the first sentence shall be transported in the presence of the electoral officer and the protocolist, another member of the Electoral Board and, where possible, other people who are present in accordance with Section 54. The receiving Electoral Board shall act pursuant to Section 61 subsection (6), seventh and eighth sentence. The handover of the ballot box and the electoral documents must be recorded in the election records of the delivering and the receiving Electoral Boards.