(1) The members of the election commission shall take an oath or affirmation within five days of their election or the notification of their delegation, and the members of the polling station commission shall do so not later than on the second day before voting day.
(2) The members of the election commission delegated under section 245 (4) shall take an oath or affirmation not later than on the day before voting day.
(3) Reciting the wording laid down in the Act on the oath and affirmation of certain public law officers, the elected members and substitute members of the National Election Commission shall take the oath or affirmation before the National Assembly, the delegated members of the National Election Commission before the Speaker of the National Assembly, the members and substitute members of regional election commissions before the Capital Mayor or the president of the county general assembly, and the members and substitute members of polling station commissions, parliamentary single-member constituency election commissions and local election commissions before the mayor.
(4) If the oath or affirmation is not taken within the time limit set in paragraph (1), it shall be taken before the Speaker of the National Assembly instead of the National Assembly, before the Capital Mayor or the president of the county general assembly instead of the mayor, and before the chair of the National Election Commission instead of the Capital Mayor or the president of the county general assembly. A person entitled thereto under paragraph (3) may administer the oath or affirmation even after expiry of the time limit specified in paragraph (1).
(5) If the mayor, the Capital Mayor, the president of the county general assembly or the Speaker of the National Assembly is prevented from administering the oath or affirmation, a deputy mayor or Deputy Capital Mayor elected from among the members of the representative body, a vice-president elected from among the members of the county general assembly or a Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly may also administer the oath or affirmation.                                (6) The members of election commissions may exercise their rights after taking the oath or affirmation.