• 1. The appointee shall ensure that the representative body receives a letter from them, or from the proxy, confirming their acceptance of the appointment, no later than the tenth day or, in the case of an appointment to a vacancy after the first meeting of the newly elected body, the twenty-eighth day after the date of the notification of appointment.

• 2. If the notification is not received within that period, the appointee is deemed not to have accepted the appointment.

• 3. The chair of the representative body shall immediately inform the chair of the central electoral committee that the appointee has accepted the appointment or that they are deemed not to have accepted the appointment.

• 4. If the appointee does not accept the appointment, they or their representative shall notify the chair of the central electoral committee by letter within the period referred to in the first paragraph. The chair shall inform the representative body of this.

• 5. As long as the appointee has not yet been admitted, they or their representative may inform the representative body by letter that they are withdrawing their acceptance of the appointment. They shall then be deemed not to have accepted the appointment. The chair of the representative body shall immediately notify the chair of the central electoral committee of the receipt of this notification.