(1) Where elections to a special negotiating body fall to be conducted, being elections by employees of participating companies and concerned subsidiaries or establishments in the State, they shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation and Regulation 7.

(2) The competent organs of the participating companies, concerned subsidiaries and establishments shall arrange for the conducting of those elections.

(3) Where the number of seats on the special negotiating body allocated to the State is equal to the number of participating companies which have employees in the State, there shall be at least one seat for each of the participating companies, and each member elected or appointed to fill such a seat shall be considered as representing the employees of the participating company that elected or appointed them.