(1)     The Land Returning Officers and the Federal Returning Officer shall examine whether the election has been conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Elections Act, these Regulations and the Federal Voting Machine Ordinance of 3 September 1975 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2459) as currently applicable. They shall decide, in accordance with the result of their scrutiny, whether an objection to the election is to be lodged (Section 2 subsection (2) of the Law on the Scrutiny of Elections).

(2)     On demand, the Constituency Returning Officers must forward the electoral documents held by themselves, the municipalities and the district administrations to the Land Returning Officer and through him or her to the Federal Returning Officer. The Federal Returning Officer may require the Land Returning Officers to forward to him or her the electoral documents held by them.