(1) The following election commissions shall operate in the election of the Members of the National Assembly:

a) the National Election Commission,

b) regional election commissions,

c) parliamentary single-member constituency election commissions,

d) local election commissions,

e) polling station commissions.

(2) With the exception of the national self-governments of national minorities, nominating organisations entitled to delegate members to the National Election Commission may delegate up to five observers to the National Election Office to verify the lawfulness of voting document check and the counting of votes. Members of the election commission or election office shall not be observers.

(3) Only voters recorded in the central electoral register who have taken the oath or the affirmation before the chair of the election commission reciting the wording laid down in the Act on the oath and affirmation of certain public law officers may serve as observers. The provisions of section 5 (3), (4) a), b) and d),and (5) shall, in other respects, apply to observers.

(4) If the head of the local election office divides the electoral register into several parts pursuant to section 257/A, the nominating organisations and independent candidates that delegate members to the polling station commission concerned may delegate further members to the polling station commission by 16.00 on the second day before voting day in a manner to have

a) not more than one delegated member per location in a situation under section 257/A (1) a),

b) not more than two delegated members per polling sub-district in a situation under section 257/A (1) b).

(5) The head of the local election office shall notify without delay those entitled to delegate of the option set out in paragraph (4).

(6) The head of the local election office may complement a polling station commission by adding the necessary number of members for the performance of the task laid out in section 292 (4).