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You are hereby required to attend before the Council, at the time and place mentioned above, and to answer such charges, bringing with you all papers and documents in your possession relevant to the matter, and any persons whose evidence you wish to lay before the Council.
The following points should be carefully noted: (a) You are entitled to be represented at the hearing before the Council by a friend or by counsel or solicitor, but if you propose to employ counsel or solicitor you must give written notice to the Registrar, at the address mentioned above, at least seven days before the hearing. (b) It is imperative that you should either send to the Registrar, before the date fixed for the hearing, or bring with you to the hearing your certificate (and badge).
ELECTION RULES
1. The first election shall take place on the thirtieth day of November 1922, and subsequent elections shall take place on the
fifth last Thursday of November in every
thereafter.
year
2. The election shall be carried out by postal ballot. The Council think shall appoint the Registrar or such other person as they may fit as Returning Officer.
3. On or before the first day of October in any year in which an election takes place, the Registrar shall advertise once in at least two recognised journals circulating amongst nurses, and in a daily newspaper published in each of the following places, namely: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee, stating that an election is to take place, where nomination papers may be obtained, and the date on which nominations must be lodged in his hands. The nomination paper shall be in or as nearly as may be in the form laid down in Schedule I. hereto.
4. Each candidate for election must be a person registered as a nurse under the Act, and must be proposed by one person so registered and seconded by another person so registered. No nomination paper shall be valid unless signed by the proposer and seconder and by the nominated candidate, and received by the Registrar not later than 10 o'clock forenoon on the fourteenth day of October in the year of election. If by 10 o'clock forenoon on said date no more than nine valid nominations are received by the Registrar, the Returning Officer shall declare the persons so nominated to be duly elected.
5. On or before the first day of November in any year in which the number of valid nominations received as aforesaid exceeds nine, the Registrar shall send by post to each person registered as a nurse under the Act a voting paper in or as nearly as may be in the form set out in Schedule II. hereto.