An Act respecting the profession of medicine and surgery.

  • British Columbia.
Date:
[1895]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An Act respecting the profession of medicine and surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    15. In the event of any person placing more than seven names on Void votes, his voting paper, the first seven shall be taken, notwithstanding any of such seven so named shall be ineligible for any election for any cause whatever. C. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 15. 16. The Registrar of the Council shall, on the second Monday of List of voters, the month of Apiil in which the election may be held, make out an alphabetical list or register of the medical practitioners who are entitled to vote at the election then about to be held, and such register may be examined at all I’easonable times. In case any medical practitioner, entitled by this Act to vote, complains to the Registrar of Rectification of the Council in writing of the improper omission or insertion of any name in the said list it shall be the duty of the Registrar of the Council forthwith to examine into the complaint, and rectify such error, if any there be; and in case any person is dissatisfied with the decision of the Registrar, he may appeal to a Judge of the Supreme Court in a summary way, and the decision of such Judge .shall be final, and such list shall remain or be altered iu accordance with such decision. C. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 16. 17. The list or register .so to be made out shall ho held to be the No unregistered register of persons entitled to vote at the next election, and no person shall be entitled to vote who.se name is not upon such register. C. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 17. 18. The members of the Council may make such regulations as Rules to be made for they consider expedient, not contiary to the provisions of this Act, for elections, regulating the procedure under the preceding .sections of this Act. C. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 18. 19. The voting papers belonging to any election shall not be Custody of voting destroyed until after all petitions in respect to such election have been decided, but the same, together with all other papers in connection with the election, shall be retained by the Registrar. C. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 19. 20. No petition against the return of any member shall be enter- Controverted tained unless such petition be filed with the Registi’ar of the Council ®^®®tion8. within ten days after the election, and shall contain a statement of the grounds on which such election is disputed, and unless a copy of such petition is served upon the member whose election is disputed within ten days from the day of election. C. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 20. 21. An}' such petition shall be disposed of in a summary way by Disputed elections, any Judge of the Supreme Court, who may dismiss the petition, or how dealt with, may decide it to be well founded, in which ca.se the person whose name is next in the order of votes of eligible candidates shall be declared elected, Q. A. 1888, c. 81, s. 21.