A Court of Inquiry into election proceedings shall be formed in connection with the Reichstag. Such Court shall also decide whether any deputy has forfeited his mandate.
The Court of Inquiry into election proceedings shall be formed of members of the Reichstag, who shall be elected by the Reichstag for the duration of the electoral period, and further of members of the Supreme Administrative Court, who shall be nominated by the President of the Realm on the suggestion of the Presiding officers of this Court.
The Court of Inquiry into election proceedings shall pronounce judgment in public and oral session through three members of the Reichstag, and two legal members.
Apart from inquiries actually conducted before the Court of Inquiry, proceedings may be taken before an officer of the Realm appointed by the President of the Realm. Further, procedure shall be determined by the Court of Inquiry.
A resolution of the Reichstag requires a simple majority of votes, except where some other proportion of votes is laid down by the constitution. The Standing Orders of the Reichstag may admit exceptions to this rule in the case of elections carried out by the Reichstag.
The Standing Order shall regulate all questions of the validity of resolutions.
The Reichstag and its Committees of the Reichstag are entitled to demand the presence of the Chancellor or of any other Minister of the Realm. The Chancellor, the Ministers, and their deputies have access to the sittings of the Reichstag and to the sittings of the Committees of the Reichstag. The Lands are entitled to send plenipotentiaries to these sittings who shall submit the views of their Government on the question under discussion.
The representatives of the Lands may demand to be heard during the discussion; the representatives of the Government of the Realm may do so under suspension if necessary of the Orders of the Day.
Such representatives are subject to the rulings of the Chair.
The Reichstag may set up Committees of Inquiry: it must do so if one-fifth of the members demand it. Such Committees shall in open session inquire into such evidence as they consider necessary, or the petitioners consider necessary. The public may be excluded by resolution of a two-thirds majority of the Committee of Inquiry. The Standing Orders shall regulate the procedure of the Committee and determine the number of its members.