• 1. For the election of members of the House of Representatives, the Provincial Council, the General Board, and the Municipal Council, the representative body may, for the purpose of the investigation referred to in Article V 4, paragraph 1, decide to recount the ballot papers, either from all or from one or more polling stations or postal voting stations.

• 2. A recount as referred to in the first paragraph shall be conducted publicly, under the responsibility of the representative body, by the municipal polling stations or postal voting stations that previously recorded the votes.

• 3. Insofar as a representative body decides to recount the votes in a combined vote as referred to in Article J 6a of the Electoral Act, this shall also take place in the presence of the representative body for which the other vote was held.

• 4. Further rules regarding the recounting of votes may be established by general administrative order.