Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Nurses Act, 1957 : 5 & 6 Eliz. 2. Ch. 15. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![(6) two shall be persons holding certificates given by virtue of tation with such persons and bodies as he thinks fit, being persons and bodies having special knowledge and experience of the work of persons engaged in the teaching of nursing ; (c) one shall be a male nurse whose name is included in the general part of the register, appointed by him after consulta- tion with such persons and bodies as he thinks fit, being persons and bodies having special knowledge and experience of the work of male nurses whose names are so included ; (d) one shall be a registered nurse in charge of a ward in a hospital which is an institution approved by the Council for the purposes of the training rules, being a nurse whose name is included in the general part of the register, appointed by him after consultation with such persons and bodies as he thinks fit, being persons and bodies having special knowledge and experience of the work of nurses in charge of wards in hospitals; and (e) three shal] be persons appearing to him to have had experi- ence of the control and management of hospitals. Supplementary Provisions 4. The members of the Council required by the foregoing pro- visions of this Schedule to be elected shall be elected in accordance with the prescribed scheme and in the prescribed manner, and the said scheme may provide that the system in accordance with which the election of the fourteen nurses mentioned in head (a) of sub- paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of this Schedule shall be conducted shall be either—-. (a) by way of assigning to each of the general electors one vote in respect of each of the areas into which England and Wales is divided under sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph ; or (b) by way of assigning to each of the general electors a single vote in respect of that one of those areas that is determined in accordance with the scheme to be, in his case, the area at the election wherefor of a member of the Council it is appropriate for him to vote. 5. The members of the Council shall hold office for a term of five years. 6.—({1) If the place of a member of the Council becomes vacant before the expiration of his term of office whether by death, resigna- tion or otherwise, the vacancy shall, if the member was appointed by the Minister, the Minister of Education or the Privy Council, be filled by a person appointed by the Minister, the Minister of Education or the Privy Council, as the case may be, and in any other case shall be filled by a person appointed by the Council. (2) A person appointed to fill a vacancy occurring in the place of a member that was orginally filled by a nurse elected for one of the areas into which England and Wales is divided under sub- paragraph (2) of paragraph 2 of this Schedule shall be a person who would be qualified for election for that area if an election were to 19 Ist SCH.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32180913_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
