APPEALS COMMITTEE (ELECTIONS) REGULATIONS

APPEALS COMMITTEE (ELECTIONS)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 464.05

APPEALS COMMITTEE (ELECTIONS)

REGULATIONS

1st June, 2004

LEGAL NOTICE 316 of 2004, as amended by Legal Notice 346 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Appeals Committee

(Elections) Regulations.

Nomination Form for Candidates for Election to the Appeals Committee

We, the undersigned, being voters entitled to vote at an election of the Appeals

(a) a medical practitioner or dentist registered with the Medical Council, or

(b) a pharmacist or pharmacy technician registered with the Pharmacy

Council, or

(c) a nurse or midwife registered with the Council for Nurses and

Midwives, or

(d) a professional registered with the Council for the Professions

Complementary to Medicine,

do hereby nominate ........................................................................ (**)

registered in the ..............................................................(**) (Register)

and whose address is ...................................................................... (**)

as a candidate for the said election.

Proposer: Name ............................................................................

(Block Letters)

Signature ............................................. Date ................................

Registered in the ...........................................................................

Seconder: Name ...........................................................................

(Block Letters)

Signature ............................................. Date ................................

Registered in the ...........................................................................

DECLARATION BY PERSON NOMINATED

I, .......................................................................................... whose name appears

(full name in block letters)

on the ............................................................. accept the above nomination.

(Register)

Date ................................................

Candidate’s signature

(**) In block letters

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In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Committee" means the Appeals Committee;

"the President" means the President of the Committee;

"the Registrars" means the Registrars of the respective Councils.

Ballot Paper

FOR USE BY ............................................

VOTING FOR ELECTION OF A CANDIDATE TO THE APPEALS COMMITTEE

Names of Candidates

Place a cross in this part against the

(in alphabetical order)

name of the candidate for whom you

wish to vote

VOTE FOR ...................... CANDIDATE(S)

(only)

Signature of Election Commissioner ................................................

Signature of Election Commissioner ................................................

(1) There shall be established four Commissions, to be

called the Appeals Committee Elections Commissions each

composed of four election commissioners representing each

Council, and each commissioner shall be appointed by the Council

which he is representing.

(2) These Commissions shall be appointed every three years by

the respective Councils and shall bear the same name and be

composed of the same number of commissioners to conduct the

election to the said Committee for that year.

The Commissions shall by the end of June 2004 cause a

notice to be published in the Gazette and in all local daily

newspapers, specifying the place, days and times during which

nominations of candidates for the election to the Committee will be

received by the Registrars of the Councils.

(1) When any of the Commissions is informed by the

President that a vacancy has occurred amongst the elected members

of the Committee, it shall as soon as may be, cause a notice to be

published in the Gazette, and all local daily newspapers, specifying

the place, days and times during which nominations of candidates

for election to the Committee will be received by the Registrar.

(2) A candidate shall be nominated in writing on a form in

accordance with the specimen contained in the First Schedule.

Whatever the number of vacancies to be filled, no person shall be

nominated to fill in more than one vacancy.

(1) If the nominations received exceed the number of

vacancies on the Committee, an election shall be held.

(2) The Commissions shall, within fifteen working days after

the closure of nominations, send a ballot paper to all the

professionals resident in Malta and registered with each Council,

and shall inform voters of the method of voting as well as the place

where, and the time by which the ballots are to be returned to each

Commission.

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(3) The ballot paper to be used for the purpose of the election

shall be in accordance with the specimen contained in the Second

Schedule, and shall be signed by two members of the Commission.

A voter shall record his vote by placing a cross against the

name of the candidate for whom he votes.

Votes shall not be accepted after the expiration of the time

fixed by the each Commission for the receipt of such votes.

Each Commission shall count the votes immediately after

the expiration of the time mentioned in the preceding regulation.

When, on the ballot paper, there is registered a larger

number of votes than is required, the ballot paper shall be declared

invalid by that Commission.

The candidate representing a Council who obtains the

largest number of votes shall be declared elected by the

Commission.

If two or more candidates representing a Council obtain an

equal number of votes, a partial election amongst those candidates

shall be held in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.

Each Commission shall immediately report the election

result to the Minister responsible for Health, Elderly and

Community Care and to the Council, and the said result shall be

published in the Gazette.

The decision of the Commission on the validity of any

nomination, the right of a person to cast the vote, the place where

the votes are received and the result of the election, are final and

conclusive.

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