Paragraph 5 Nominations

(1)

Not less than five months before the due date the Returning Officer shall fix and publish the date of the nomination day in such manner as the Returning Officer sees fit.

(2)

Not less than twenty-one days before the nomination day the Returning Officer shall send to each elector a notice specifying the date of the nomination day and the address to which nominations are to be returned.

(3)

The requirement to send an elector a notice under rule 5(2) shall be treated as satisfied if it is sent to him electronically to an electronic address notified to the Council by that elector as a contact address.

(4)

A candidate for election as a registrant member or alternate member shall be nominated by six electors who are registered in the same part of the register as the candidate.

(5)

A candidate—

(a)

may only be nominated as a registrant member or an alternate member (but not both) to represent a part of the register in which he is registered and, if a person is registered in more than one part of the register, may only be nominated or elected to represent one part of the register at any one time;

(b)

must live or work wholly or mainly in the United Kingdom;

(c)

must not be the subject of any allegation, investigation or proceedings by the Council or any other body responsible for regulating or licensing a health or social care profession concerning his fitness to practice;

(d)

must be wholly or mainly engaged in the practice, teaching or management of the profession in respect of which he is registered and seeks election or in research in those fields.

(6)

A nomination shall be valid only if—

(a)

it is made on the nomination form available from the Returning Officer;

(b)

it is made on one or more nomination forms signed by the electors nominating the candidate and received by the Registrar by the nomination day; and

(c)

the candidate has consented to his nomination in the form required by rule 6(1) and that consent has been received by the Registrar by the nomination day.

(7)

An elector may nominate not more than six candidates and, if an elector purports to nominate more than six candidates, his signature shall be valid only on the first six nominations received by the Returning Officer or, where two or more forms are received by the Returning Officer at the same time, in the order in which the Returning Officer in fact sees them.

Notes on Schedule

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2002/254.