(1) If the mandate of an elected member of an election commission terminated for a causespecified in section 34 (1) a) to c) or f), his place shall be taken by the substitute member who is listed next in the proposal for electing substitute members.

(2) If there is no substitute member, the representative body of the settlement local government or the Budapest-Capital General Assembly or the county general assembly, or, for the National Election Commission, the National Assembly shall elect a new member and substitute members.

(3) If no new member and substitute members were elected to the election commission, section 26 shall apply. If in a case referred to in section 26 a) the parliamentary single-member constituency election commission is not operating, the local election commission shall act in its place, and if in a case referred to in section 26 b) the regional election commission is not operating, the National Election Commission shall act in its place.