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1. In the event that, following an election of the First or Second Chamber of the Parliament, one or more seats are allocated to the list of a political party to which no seats were allocated during the preceding election, the party concerned shall become eligible for a subsidy as from the first day of the third calendar month prior to the month when the election took place. For said political party the reference date, notwithstanding article 1, section (k), shall be the first day of the calendar month subsequent to the month when the election took place.
2. The application for allocation of the subsidy and an advance on said subsidy shall be submitted without delay and at the latest within four months following the reference date, as referred to in section one. Article 11 shall apply, with the provision that Our Minister grants the subsidy and the advance on the subsidy within two months following receipt of the application.
3. The amounts calculated on the basis of article 8 as regards the application referred to sections one and two remain unchanged.
4. Subsidies granted on the basis of the present article may be applied to the expenses referred to in article 7, related to activities which took place in the period starting on the first day of the sixth month prior to the month when the election took place.