The Insurance Brokers Registration Council Election Scheme Approval Order 1999

15.—(1) When a poll is necessary the Returning Officer shall fix a polling day and shall publish:—

(a) the date thereof, which shall be not less than 21 days later than the date of such publication and shall be a date preceding the day on which the relevant members of the Council are due to retire;

(b) the names, the registered addresses (and the addresses contained in the register if different), of all candidates;

(c) subject as provided in the next following sub-paragraph, the names of registered insurance brokers nominating each candidate; and,

(d) in respect of each candidate and each person nominating such candidate:—

(i) the names of all enrolled bodies corporate of which they are directors;

(ii) all business names under which they or a partnership of which they are members carry on business as insurance brokers;

(iii) the names of all enrolled bodies corporate by which they are employed or in whose businesses they are engaged;

(iv) if they are employed or engaged as an insurance broker by a registered insurance broker or a partnership of which a registered insurance broker or an enrolled body corporate is a member, the name of the registered insurance broker or the partnership and any other business name under which such business is carried on.

(2) If the Returning Officer receives more than six nominations in relation to any one candidate, he shall invite the candidate to state which six nominations should be published in connection with the candidature.

(3) If the Returning Officer cannot obtain within four days such a statement from the candidate, he shall publish in connection with the candidature the six nominations earliest received, or where several nominations are on one form, those first mentioned therein.

(4) For the purposes of the foregoing sub-paragraph the provisions of paragraph 11(2) of this Scheme shall apply where necessary for determining the order of time in which nominations shall be deemed to have been received by the Returning Officer.

(5) The Returning Officer shall send a copy of this Scheme to each person nominated as a candidate, and shall draw attention to paragraphs 17, 25, 26 and 27 of this Scheme, which relate respectively to the publicity available to the Returning Officer, the restrictions on expenditure, the statutory declaration which candidates are required to make and the restrictions on electioneering.