SCHEDULE TO THE RULES
General Nursing Council for England and Wales
1. Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used in this Scheme have the same meanings as in the Nurses Rules 1961(a)[1].
2.—(1) The Council shall at least 6 months before the date on which the elected members of the Mental Nurses Committee cease to hold office appoint a person , not being a member of the Council, or of any Committee thereof, to be the Returning Officer for the ensuing election.
(2) The Returning Officer shall appoint a Deputy Returning Officer, not being a member of the Council, or of any Committee thereof, to act for him in the event of his absence or inability to act, and the expression “ Returning Officer ” in this Scheme includes the Deputy Returning Officer so acting.
(3) The Returning Officer shall have power, subject to the approval of the Council, to employ and pay out of the monies received from the Council the staff necessary for the conduct of the election.
(4) Subject to the provisions of this Scheme, the Returning Officer shall be responsible for the conduct of the election.
3. In order to be eligible for election under this Scheme as one of the two elected persons of the Mental Nurses Committee, or to be entitled to nominate for, and take part in the election, a person must be a registered mental nurse on the date fixed by the Returning Officer under paragraph 4 of the Scheme as the last day on which nomination papers are to be received.
4. The Returning Officer shall fix the last day on which nomination papers are to be received, and at least 28 clear days before the day so fixed shall cause a notice of the election to be published, specifying the number and description of persons to be elected, the place where the nomination papers are to be sent in, and the last day on which they are to be received. The notice shall be published in 2 or more newspapers circulating in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and shall be, as nearly as may be, in the form marked A in the Appendix to this Scheme.
5.—(1) Each candidate for election shall be nominated on a separate nomination paper signed by not fewer than 6 persons having the requisite qualification for nominating the candidate . No person may nominate more than 2 candidates.
(2) Each nomination paper shall contain the name, address and registered qualification or qualifications of the person nominated, and also the address and registered qualification or qualifications of each person signing such paper, and shall be, as nearly as may be, in the form marked B in the Appendix to this Scheme.
- ↑ (a) Scheduled to S.I. 1961/1520 ( 1961 II, p . 3127).
