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The funds specified in Article 3 of this Act shall be allocated by setting an equal amount thereof for each deputy to the Croatian Parliament or each member of the representative body of a local and regional governmental unit, with each political party being entitled to receive any such funding as may be proportionate to the number of its parliamentary deputies or members of the representative body of a local and regional governmental unit at the time of the constitution of the Croatian Parliament or the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit.
If the membership of a deputy (deputies) to the Croatian Parliament or a member (members) of the representative body of a local and regional governmental unit in his/her (their) political party is terminated after the constitution of the Croatian Parliament or the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit, the funds allocated under paragraph (1) of this Article shall be retained by the political party to which such parliamentary deputy or member of the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit belonged at the time of the constitution of the Croatian Parliament or the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit.
Should two or more political parties merge, the funds allocated under paragraph (1) of this Article shall belong to any political party deemed the legal successor of the political parties that have ceased to exist as a result of such merger.
If an independent deputy of the Croatian Parliament or an independent member of the representative body of a local and regional governmental unit, who has been elected thereto from an independent slate, becomes the member of a political party represented in the Croatian Parliament or the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit after the constitution of the Croatian Parliament or the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit, the deputy or member of the representative body of such local and regional governmental unit, who was originally elected from an independent slate, shall retain the funds secured for his/her regular annual financing in the central, local or regional budget, and shall remain subject to the provisions hereof pertaining to independent deputies or independent members of the representative bodies of local and regional governmental units, who have been elected from independent slates.