Article 6 Registers
The Commissioners shall cause the following lists to be made up:—
a list of shipowners, being those persons—
who have a place of business in the parish; and
on 1st November preceding the application date whose names appear in the register of British fishing vessels under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 as owner or part-owner of a fishing vessel;
a list of harbour ratepayers, being those persons—
who reside or have their place of business in the parish and,
during the year ending 31st October preceding the application date, have paid as principal £50 or more of rates to the Commissioners; and
a list of parishioners, being those persons who appear on the register of electors for the electoral wards of Buchan North, Buchan North East, Central Buchan, Fraserburgh East, Fraserburgh North, Fraserburgh South, Fraserburgh West and Lonmay & St. Fergus held by Aberdeenshire Council and last published in the year preceding the application date.
For the purpose of making up the list of ratepayers of the harbour, the Commissioners shall cause to be entered in a book or books kept by them the name and designation of every such person and the total amounts of such rates paid by such person during the period of 12 months ending 31st October in that year, which book or books shall be open to public inspection at all times during the hours of business.
Where rates are paid or a ship or share in a ship is owned by any company or partnership consisting of two or more members or partners having a place of business within the parish, such company or partnership may, before expiration of the first week of November immediately preceding the election, intimate in writing to the Commissioners the name of any one of the members or partners by whom such payment shall be deemed to have been made or by whom such ship or share in a ship shall be deemed to be owned, and such payment or such ship or share in a ship, as the case may be, shall, for the purposes of the election, be deemed to be made or owned, as the case may be, by the member or partner so named, if resident within the parish, and the member or partner so named shall be qualified to be an elector, and to nominate the elected Commissioners, in the same manner as if such payment had been made or such ship or share in a ship had been owned by that person as an individual, provided that the amount of rates paid by such company or partnership, be sufficient to afford the qualification in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above in respect of rates to each of the members or partners so named.