(1) Where the size and legibility of the ballot paper make such action necessary the Minister for the Interior and Health may upon application from an election committee approve that the names of candidates do not appear on the ballot paper for local and regional elections, respectively. Where the names of candidates do not appear on the ballot paper, such ballot paper must be designed so as to leave a space open for a voter to enter a candidate’s name in the field of each list of candidates.

(2) An application from an election committee pursuant to subsection (1) shall be dispatched to the Minister for the Interior and Health soonest possible after expiry of the time- limits for submission of lists of candidates, cf. 1st and 3rd sentence of section 23(1).

(3) In connection with granting the approval pursuant to subsection (1) the Minister for the Interior and Health shall lay down the specific rules governing the voting on election day, cf. sections 51(3), 54(1) and (2), and 55(4) and the rules governing the counting of the votes cast, cf. section 74, which are to apply as a result of the non-appearance of the names of candidates on the ballot paper.