Education Acts Compilation^

Eleotors - 1900, No. 16, sec. 3

Returning officer. ibid, sec 4 Date of election fn ibid Tec 7 a " CV Election on extraordinary vacancy. 1901, No. 29, sec. 7 Procedure with respect to elections. Ibid, sec. 2 officer ° f Reburning 3 Mode of voting. 1900, No. 16, sec. 9 when voting-paper ibid 5 s r e 6 c tU io ed ' when poii to close. ibid, sec. 11 informal votingpapers. Ibid ' seo ' l2

Election on extraordinary vacancy. 1901, No. 29, sec. 7 Procedure with respect to elections. Ibid, seo. 2

Duties of Returning Officer. Ibid, sec. 3

Mode of voting. 1900, No. 16, sec. 9

When voting-paper to be returned. Ibid, sec. 10

When poll to close. Ibid, sec. 11

Informal votingpapers. Ibid, seo. 12

13. The electors shall, in the case of each education district, be mem bers of the respective School Committees in each school district in such education district. 14. For the purpose of every election the Secretary of the Board shall be the Returning Officer. 5 15. (1.) In the case of every ordinary vacancy the election shall . be held on the fourtn Monday in July, and the first ordinary election shall be held on the fourth Monday in July first following the coming into operation of this Act. (2.) In the case of every extraordinary vacancy the election 10 sna ji fr e on a to fr e g xe( j ty tne j3 oarf j, being not later than the fiftieth day after the vacancy occurs. 16. (1.) Not later than thirty-eight days before the date of th i ti the R etu rning Officer shall, by advertisement in a . , . . , ° ~ . ■ <■ i i o Ip. newspaper circulating in the district, notify the number of vacancies, lQ the date on which nominations will close, and the date on which the election will be held. (2.) Nominations shall close at five o'clock on the afternoon of the twenty-second day before the date of the election. (3.) No person shall be eligible as a candidate for election unless 20 he is nominated in writing by at least two electors, and the nomina-tion-paper, bearing the candidate's consent in writing, is received by the Returning Officer before the nominations are closed. 17- Not later than the seventeenth day before the date of the election the Returning Officer shall notify in manner aforesaid — 25 (a.) The number of members to be elected; {b.) The full name of every duly nominated candidate; and (c.) The day on which the elections will be held, and hour at which the poll will be closed; and shall also forward to the Chairman of each School Committee in 30 the district a sufficient supply of voting-papers for the use of such of the electors as are members of that Committee. 18. The elector shall indicate his vote by drawing a line through the names of all the candidates for whom he does not desire to vote, and shall then sign the voting-paper, and post or deliver the 35 same to the Returning Officer in a closed envelope bearing on the outside thereof the words " Voting Paper." 19. The voting-paper, if delivered to the Returning Officer, shall be delivered at the office of the Board before the day of the election, or not later than five o'clock in the afternoon of the day of the 40 election, and, if posted to him, shall be posted to him not later than on that day. 20. The poll shall close at five o'clock in the afternoon of the rj a y of the election; but all voting-papers shall be included and counted which are received by him in ordinary course of post before 45 the close of the fourteenth day after the day of the election, and are enclosed in envelopes bearing the postmark of a day not being later than the day of the election, 21. A voting-paper shall be informal in any of the following cases : 50 (a.) If it is not duly signed by the elector. (b.) If the candidates whose names are left uncancelled exceed the total number to be elected.

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