The General Osteopathic Council (Election of Members and Chairman of Council) Rules Order of Council 2001

PART I Preliminary

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the General Osteopathic Council (Election of Members and Chairman of Council) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 17th January 2001.

(2) In these Rules, except where the context otherwise requires—

(a) “the Act” means the Osteopaths Act 1993;

(b) “the Chairman” means the Chairman of the Council or, as the case may be, any person acting on behalf of the Chairman in accordance with Rule 4 of the Constitution and Procedure Rules but does not include any person appointed under paragraph 48 of the Schedule to the Act;

(c) “the Constitution and Procedure Rules” means the General Osteopathic Council (Constitution and Procedure) Rules 1998(1);

(d) “the Council” means the General Osteopathic Council;

(e) “count” means either the count as a whole or any stage of the count;

(f) “elected member” means a member elected in accordance with these Rules;

(g) “member” means a member of the Council;

(h) “non-transferable form” means a valid voting form on which no second or subsequent preference is recorded for a remaining candidate;

(i) “osteopath” means any person whose name is on the register of osteopaths;

(j) “the register” means the professional register of osteopaths maintained by the Registrar under section 2 of the Act;

(k) “the Registrar” means the Registrar of the Council as appointed under section 2 of the Act;

(l) “remaining candidate” means any candidate who has neither been elected nor eliminated from the election at any given time;

(m) “transferable form” means a valid voting form on which, following the first preference, a second or subsequent preference is recorded in consecutive numerical order for a remaining candidate, the preferences next in order on the voting form for candidates already elected or eliminated from the poll being ignored;

(3) In these Rules—

(i) Any reference to a numbered rule shall be construed as a reference to the rule bearing that number in these Rules;

(ii) Any reference to a numbered paragraph shall be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the rule in which it occurs; and

(iii) Any reference to a numbered schedule shall be construed as a reference to the schedule to these Rules bearing that number.

(1)

Scheduled to S.I. 1998/1019.