(1) No person can be appointed as a member of an Polling Station Committee or election commission other than the Central Election Commission of BiH who:

1. is not eligible to stand as a candidate in accordance with Articles 1.6, 1.7 and 1.7a of this law;
2. is a member of the highest executive political body of a political party or coalition (a president, deputy president, the general secretary, secretary or member of the executive board or the central board);
3. holds an elected mandate or is a member of an executive body of authority except in cases referred to in Article 2.12, paragraph (4) of this Law;
4. who currently stands as a candidate or has been a candidate at any level of authority in the last general and the last local elections; and
5. has been sanctioned for a serious violation of the electoral laws or regulations where the person was found to be personally responsible for the violation, in the previous four years, starting from the day the decision became final.

(2) The Central Election Commission of BiH shall decide if the severityof the violation and the personal responsibility of the individual, as stated in paragraph (5) of this Article, prohibits the person from being a member of an election commission or a Polling Station Committee.