(1) The polling station commission shall seal envelopes, without opening them, in separate transportation envelopes for each national minority and shall transport the transportation envelopes to the local election office.

(2) By way of derogation from paragraph (1),

a) the local election commission acting within the powers of a polling station commission in a settlement with a single polling district shall not seal the envelopes containing ballot papers under section 327 (1) in a transportation envelope and shall not transport them to the local election office,

b) the polling station commission operating in a settlement other than the seat of the local election office shall transport the envelopes containing ballot papers under section 327 (1) directly to the local election commission.

(3) The local election office shall transport to the regional election office the transportation envelopes containing the ballot papers under section 327 (2).