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1. The amount of the annual subsidy referred to in Article 28 for a given political party or an electoral coalition shall be determined on a gradual degression basis pro rata to the total number of valid votes cast on district lists of candidates for deputies of such a party or electoral coalition, with breakdown by the number of votes corresponding to individual percentage brackets, in accordance with the following formula:

S = W₁ x M₁ + W₂ x M₂ + W₃ x M₃ + W₄ x M₄ + W₅ x M₅

where individual symbols mean:

S - amount of annual subsidy,

W_1-5 - numbers of votes calculated successively for each line of the following table, provided separately as a result of breaking down the total number of valid votes cast nationwide on district lists of candidates for deputies from a given political party or electoral coalition according to the percentage bracket, M_1-5 - amount in PLN for consecutive lines of the following table: 

 2. The annual subsidy in the amount determined in pursuance of paragraph 1 and Article 28 shall be paid each year during the term of office of the Sejm to a given political party in four equal quarterly instalments, subject to Article 32.

3. The basis for payment of the subsidy shall be an application for payment of the subsidy for a given year submitted by a political party's governing body authorised by its constitution to represent it in dealings with third parties, by 31 March of each year, prepared using the official form and approved by the State Electoral Commission in terms of eligibility for the subsidy and its amount.

4. Proceeds of the subsidy shall be kept in a separate sub-account of a political party's bank account. The subsidy shall be remitted to a bank account indicated by a political party by the minister responsible for public finances.

5. The first quarterly instalment of the subsidy due to a political party shall be paid within 30 days at the latest from the publication by the State Electoral Commission in the Official Journal of the Republic of Poland "Monitor Polski" of a notice about approved and rejected election reports from electoral committees.

6. The minister responsible for public finances shall, by way of a regulation, increase the amounts referred to in paragraph 1, if the consumer price index rises overall by more than 5%, by such an amount as corresponds to the increase of those prices.

7. The consumer price index referred to in paragraph 6 shall be set on the basis of the communiqué of the President of the Central Statistical Office published in the Official Journal of the Republic of Poland "Monitor Polski" by the 20th day of the first month of each quarter.