17. In any election of members of the Council—
(a)in any one Section (whether or not relevant to that Section’s forming part of a Section-Group) each commoner entitled to vote is entitled to one vote;
(b)where two or more persons are commoners by virtue of a joint holding, they are not each entitled to vote but may jointly nominate one of them to be entitled to vote;
(c)the returning officer may allow a person entitled to vote to appoint a proxy in writing to vote on that person’s behalf; and
(d)in the event that any candidates receive an equal number of votes, each vote received must be weighted according to the extent of the rights held by the person casting that vote (the greater the amount of the right held in the Section in question, the greater the weight of the vote), and the candidate elected is to be that with the largest weight of votes.