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is required to be held or made: Provided that an advertisement in newspapers circulating in the district shall be deemed to be sufficient notice.
19. (i.) In the case of each of the following groups of electing bodies—
(a.) Local authorities,
(b.) Associations of employers in local industries,
(c.) Associations of employees in local industries—
there shall be constituted an Electing Committee appointed annually or when required.
(ii.) Such Electing Committee shall meet within the month determined by the controlling authority under Regulation 18 hereof, and shall elect, on behalf of the group of bodies concerned, the number of representatives required in respect of that group, in such manner as it shall deem fit.
(iii.) Each local authority of a city, borough, town district, or county which contributed to the support of, or any part of which is within five miles of, a technical school shall be entitled to appoint one member of the Electing Committee for local authorities.
(iv.) Local associations of employers recognized thereto by the Minister shall each be entitled to appoint one member of the Electing Committee for employers.
(v.) Local associations of employees recognized thereto by the Minister shall each be entitled to appoint one member of the Electing Committee for employees.
(vi.) The names and addresses of persons appointed as members of such Electing Committees shall be forwarded by the nominating bodies concerned to the Returning Officer referred to in Regulation 20 hereof before the end of the first fourteen days of the month fixed by the controlling authority for the appointment or election of managers.
(vii.) The Returning Officer shall convene meetings of the Electing Committees for the purposes of such election, and shall act as secretary to these Committees in person or by deputy: Provided that where less than seven such bodies or associations are concerned the representatives may be elected at a meeting of the members of such bodies or associations, or, in the case of employers and employees in local industries, at a general meeting of such employers or employees called thereto for this purpose by the Returning Officer by advertisement in newspapers circulating in the district.
20. The election of a representative of members of the School Committees of the public schools within five miles of a technical school shall be conducted when necessary in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say:—
(i.) Every such election shall be held during the month of July, August, or September in each year, on a date to be fixed by the controlling authority.
(ii.) The Secretary of the board of managers shall be the Returning Officer. In the case of a first election the Secretary of the controlling authority shall be the Returning Officer.
(iii.) For the purposes of each election the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll and shall enter therein the name and address of every person qualified to be enrolled as a member of the School Committee of a public school within five miles of the technical school concerned. The roll shall be closed at 5 p.m. on the fourteenth day next before the day on which any election is to be held, and shall continue to be closed until the election is completed.
(iv.) The Returning Officer shall, by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the district, publicly notify, not less than fourteen days before such election—
(a.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations:
(b.) The day and hour for the closing of the election.
(v.) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more persons entitled to vote for his election. No person may, however, nominate more than one candidate.
(vi.) Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:—
I [Name and address], being duly entered on the roll of members of School Committees of public schools within five miles of [Name] Technical School, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Board of Managers of the said [Name] Technical School at the election to be held on the day of , 19 .
Dated this day of , 19 . [Signature of nominator.]
CANDIDATE’S CONSENT [to be subscribed at foot of nomination-paper].
I hereby consent to my nomination. [Signature of candidate nominated.]
Provided that such consent may be given to the Returning Officer at any time before nominations are closed; provided further that every nomination-paper shall be void in so far as concerns any candidate whose written consent is not duly given as aforesaid.