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6. Each nurse registered as aforesaid shall have nine votes, and may use the same or any less number of votes, but shall not give more than one vote to each candidate. Any voting paper which contains more than nine votes in all, or contains more than one vote for any candidate, shall be treated as a spoiled paper and rejected by the Returning Officer in toto.
7. No voting paper shall be accepted which is received by the Registrar later than 12 noon on the last Thursday in November in any year in which an election takes place. As soon as possible thereafter the votes shall be counted under the direction of the Returning Officer, who shall declare elected the nine candidates having the largest number of votes. If the number of votes received by any two or more candidates are equal, and the addition of a vote to any one of said candidates would enable that candidate to be declared elected, the Returning Officer shall decide by lot which of the candidates shall be elected. The result shall be published by the Returning Officer in the newspapers aforesaid, and communicated to the Board.
8. If the place of an elected member of the Council becomes vacant before the expiration of such member's term of office, whether by death, resignation, or otherwise, or in the event of a sufficient number of nominations of elected members not being made, the vacancy shall be filled by the Council. Any person so appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office only until the next election of members of the Council.
9. All questions with regard to the validity of nomination papers or voting papers, or to other matters connected with an election, shall be determined by the Returning Officer, whose decision shall be final.
10. In these Rules the following words shall have the meanings hereto attached to them, namely:
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The Board means the Scottish Board of Health,
The Council means the General Nursing Council for Scot-
land.
The Registrar" means the Registrar for the time being of the
General Nursing Council for Scotland.
"The Act means the Nurses Registration (Scotland) Act,
1919.
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SCHEDULE I.
GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR SCOTLAND.
Election of Members.
We hereby nominate :
(Name in full) (Address).....
NOMINATION PAPERS.
(Professional status)
as a Member of the General Nursing Council for Scotland.
(Signature)..
(Name in full)
(Registered address).....
(Registered number)...
(Signature)...
(Name in full)...
(Registered address).
(Registered number)....
(Date)
Proposer.
Seconder.
* I hereby consent to be nominated as a Member of the General Proposer Nursing Council for Scotland.
(Signature).........
My registered number is
NOTES.
1. Person nominated may be of either sex, but must be registered
in at least one part of the Register kept by the Council.
2. If a member wishes to nominate more than one candidate,
a separate Nomination Paper must be used for each.
3. Nomination Papers must be sent to the Registrar, General Nursing Council for Scotland, 18 Melville Street, Edinburgh, in a sealed envelope marked "Election," and must reach him not later than
4. This is not a Voting Paper. Voting Papers will be sent out after nominations have been received.
must obtain the Signature of nominated Candidate to this declara- tion.